Field Application Engineer

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Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Job Summary

As a Field Applications Engineer, you’ll work directly with customer engineering teams to understand their designs, solve technical challenges, and identify semiconductor and electronic component solutions that best meet their application requirements. You’ll partner closely with Avnet Account Managers and the internal sales team supporting those customer accounts to uncover new design opportunities, develop technical strategies, and help move customer designs from concept through production.

You’ll serve as a technical link between customers, Avnet’s sales organization, supplier partners, and their engineering resources. The role provides exposure to a broad range of technologies, including MCUs, MPUs, FPGAs, embedded computing, analog, power management, RF, connectivity, memory, and other semiconductor technologies.

The FAE will engage early in the customer design cycle, understand system-level requirements, recommend appropriate technologies and solutions, and drive designs that result in long-term business growth.

This position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, working across multiple technologies and applications, and building relationships with both engineering teams and business partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Customer Engineering Teams: Work closely with customer engineers to understand system architectures, application requirements, product roadmaps, and technical challenges. Recommend semiconductor and electronic component solutions that optimize performance, power, cost, reliability, availability, and overall design objectives.
• Collaborate with Avnet Account Managers and Sales Teams: Work alongside Account Managers and the internal Avnet sales team supporting assigned customers to identify new projects, develop technical account strategies, uncover opportunities, and align the appropriate Avnet and supplier resources.
• Support System-Level Designs: Provide technical guidance across technologies including MCUs, MPUs, SoCs, FPGAs, embedded computing, analog and mixed signal, power management, memory, RF, wireless connectivity, interfaces, and other semiconductor technologies.
• Develop and Drive Design Opportunities: Engage customers early in the design process, from system architecture through component selection, to uncover new projects and identify opportunities for Avnet supplier technologies. Partner with Account Managers and supplier partners to develop and track key opportunities from initial discovery through development and production, supporting long-term business growth.
• Build Strong Technical Relationships: Develop trusted relationships with design engineers, system architects, engineering managers, technical decision-makers, and other key influencers within assigned customer accounts.
• Collaborate with Supplier Partners: Work with Avnet's semiconductor and technology suppliers and their engineering resources to introduce new products, evaluate solutions, resolve technical challenges, and support customer designs.
• Support Customer Design Reviews: Participate in customer and supplier technical meetings and design reviews, bringing together the appropriate technical expertise and resources to help customers solve design challenges.
• Support the Avnet Sales Organization: Provide technical guidance and product knowledge to Account Managers and internal sales teams, helping them recognize potential design opportunities, understand customer applications, and appropriately position Avnet supplier technologies.
• Provide Technical Training: Support customer and internal technical training, product demonstrations, workshops, and other activities designed to increase knowledge and adoption of supported technologies.
• Track Strategic Opportunities: Maintain visibility to significant design opportunities and collaborate with customers, Account Managers, internal sales teams, and suppliers throughout the design cycle.
• Stay Current on Emerging Technologies: Maintain knowledge of semiconductor technologies, supplier product roadmaps, customer applications, competitive solutions, and industry trends relevant to assigned customers and markets.
• Attend internal and external technical training and maintain required technical or supplier certifications.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Level Specifications

• Strong understanding of electrical engineering principles, electronic circuits, embedded systems, and system-level architectures.
• Technical knowledge or hands-on experience in several of the following areas:
  • MCUs, MPUs, SoCs, and/or FPGAs
  • Analog and digital circuit design
  • Power electronics and power management
  • Embedded hardware and firmware
  • Communication interfaces and protocols including SPI, I²C, UART, USB, Ethernet, CAN, or similar technologies
  • Memory technologies
  • RF and wireless connectivity
  • Signal processing
  • Embedded computing platforms
• Ability to understand complex system-level requirements and translate those requirements into appropriate component and technology recommendations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to customers, suppliers, Account Managers, and internal teams.
• Ability to develop trusted technical relationships with engineers, engineering managers, system architects, and other technical decision-makers.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across customer, supplier, engineering, and sales organizations.
• Self-motivated, intellectually curious, adaptable, and interested in continuously learning new technologies.
• Ability to manage multiple customer projects and technical opportunities throughout different stages of the design cycle.
• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, industrial, robotics, communications, or other high-reliability and advanced technology applications is beneficial.

Work Experience

• Typically 2+ years of experience in hardware design, embedded systems engineering, applications engineering, systems engineering, or another related technical role.
• Minimum experience required is typically 5+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.
• Experience with one or more of the following is preferred: schematic design, PCB development, hardware debugging, embedded system integration, firmware development, component selection, or system-level engineering.
• Familiarity with semiconductor component selection and evaluating technical trade-offs at the system and component level.
• Customer-facing experience in applications engineering, technical consulting, technical support, or technical sales is preferred but not required.

Education and Certification(s)

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline, or equivalent technical experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been obtained.

Pay and Benefits:

• https://aux.avnet.com/OE2026/documents/2026-benefits-resource-guide-final.pdf
• $160,000 - $195,000  total compensation range
• Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Actual compensation offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, geographic location, candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations.
• Position open until filled 
  
  

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Our employees work hard to live our values and help us grow. Our total rewards strategy supports Avnet’s ability to attract, engage, develop, and reward our employees, while promoting a diverse and inclusive environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefit programs — from time away and flexible working arrangements to programs supporting employee well-being and opportunities to give back to your community.

• Generous Paid Time Off

• 401K and Pension Plan

• Paid Holidays

• Family Support (Paid Leave, Surrogacy, Adoption)

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

• Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance

• Health Savings Account / Flexible Spending Account

• Education Assistance

• Employee Development Resources

• Employee Wellness, Leadership Development and Mentorship Programs

Benefits listed above may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Avnet.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills.

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