Cirrus Real Estate GmbH is hiring a Senior Field Applications Engineer to act as a customer-facing technical leader focused on automotive accounts across the Americas. This role sits at the intersection of applications engineering, strategic selling, and product marketing, serving as the primary technical authority for customers and a critical feedback channel into the company. We are looking for someone to proactively identify platform opportunities, shape customer architectures early, and close designs.
What You'll Do
- Own technical relationships at target automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and broad-market customers across the Americas.
- Lead system-level architecture discussions for automotive audio and mixed-signal applications, including codecs, amplifiers, haptics, and precision analog.
- Identify and influence key technical buying decisions early in the design cycle — before reference platforms are locked.
- Create and deliver compelling technical presentations, application notes, and proof-of-concept evaluations that accelerate customer design-in.
- Provide hands-on applications support through schematic review, layout guidance, firmware bringup, and real-time debug.
- Engage directly with automotive OEM system architects and HW/SW engineers on next-generation platform architecture decisions.
- Support high-priority automotive platform pursuits as the technical lead for the Americas.
- Translate customer platform requirements and competitive gaps into structured product feedback for internal business units to influence roadmap prioritization and new product definition.
- Collaborate with automotive product teams to align roadmap to customer platform timelines and production schedules.
- Monitor the competitive landscape and bring differentiated technical positioning into customer conversations.
- Identify and engage emerging customer opportunities outside of automotive to validate where the company's technology can create value in new markets.
- Develop reusable technical collateral that scales the team's impact across accounts.
- Serve as the voice of the customer with product marketing, engineering, and executive leadership, translating field intelligence into actionable product definition input.
- Partner with Account Managers on account planning, pipeline development, and executive engagement.
- Work within a structured strategic selling framework to qualify opportunities, map buying influences, and advance deals.
- Log all technical activities, design win milestones, and competitive intelligence in Salesforce CRM.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in applications engineering, FAE, or systems engineering roles in the semiconductor industry.
- Deep hands-on expertise in analog/mixed-signal ICs — audio, power management, precision sensing, or related domains.
- Direct automotive customer engagement experience — OEM or Tier 1, ideally in infotainment, audio, or power electronics systems.
- Proven track record of influencing platform architecture decisions and closing design wins in complex B2B sales cycles.
- Strong lab skills: oscilloscopes, signal analyzers, embedded firmware debug, schematic and layout review.
- Ability to synthesize customer and market feedback into clear, actionable product definition input for internal engineering and marketing teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
Nice to Have
- Experience with emerging automotive architectures such as 48V systems, zonal distribution, or next-generation infotainment platforms.
- Familiarity with automotive functional safety requirements and qualification processes.
- Curiosity about and exposure to markets beyond automotive — consumer, industrial, or adjacent applications where analog/mixed-signal ICs are relevant.
- Experience working cross-functionally with product marketing or engineering teams to influence product roadmaps.
- Experience with Salesforce CRM and strategic account planning methodologies.
Technical Stack
- Salesforce CRM
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work model.
Cirrus Logic strives to select the best qualified applicant for any opening. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
