FAE- Principal Field Applications Engineer

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Position range in Travis County $79k - $154k Per Year

FAE- Principal Field Applications Engineer

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC.

Occupation: Microsystems Engineers

Location: Austin, TX

Job Type: Regular, Full Time (30 Hours or More), Permanent Employment

Posted: 05/14/2026

Positions available: 1

Source: WorkInTexas

Web Site: WorkInTexas

Onsite / Remote: Not Specified

Updated: 05/17/2026

Expires: 06/13/2026

Job #: 17014965

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Work Onsite

Full Time

Experience

120 Month(s)

Schedule

Full Time

Job Type

Regular

Duration

Permanent Employment

Public Transit

Available

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Company Description:

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of embedded control applications. Our

product portfolio comprises general purpose and specialized 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit

microcontrollers, 32-bit microprocessors, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) products,

a broad spectrum of high-performance linear, mixed-signal, power management, thermal

management, radio frequency (RF), timing, safety, security, wired connectivity and wireless

connectivity devices, as well as serial Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only

Memory (EEPROM), Serial Flash memories, Parallel Flash memories, and serial Static

Random Access Memory (SRAM). We also license Flash-IP solutions that are incorporated

in a broad range of products.

We are seeking a Principal-level Field Applications Engineer with a rare combination

of deep embedded design expertise and extensive customer-facing experience. This role is

ideal for someone who has spent 10+ years working directly with customers in a technical

capacitywhether in sales engineering, field applications engineering, customer solutions,

or technical consultingand who thrives on owning an embedded solution from first

customer conversation through production and long-term support.

This is not a pure development role and not a pure sales role. You will act as a technical

lead, architect, and trusted advisor, helping customers define requirements, win internal

buy-in, and successfully deliver production-grade embedded software.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer Engagement & Design Wins

Act as a primary technical interface to customers, owning relationships from initial

engagement through product launch

Proactively identify new opportunities for design wins by understanding customer

roadmaps, pain points, and business drivers

Translate customer requirements into complete embedded system architectures

Present and iterate on technical solutions with customer engineering and

management teams

Partner closely with sales to drive design wins to revenue, while independently

leading the technical strategy

Embedded System Architecture & Design

Architect endtoend embedded solutions, including hardware, firmware, and

supporting tools

Design productionlevel hardware (schematic design, component selection, design

for manufacturability)

Develop production-level embedded firmware applications in C/C++ for

microcontroller-based systems

Implement RTOS-based designs, bootloaders, firmware update mechanisms, and

peripheral drivers

Adapt and extend reference designs to meet customer-specific requirements

Implementation, Debug & Support

Own the technical success of customer projects through:

System bring-up and debugging

Root-cause analysis of hardware and firmware issues

Bug fixes and feature enhancements throughout the product lifecycle

Support customers post-design-win with:

Production readiness

Sustaining engineering

Feature expansion and roadmap alignment

Required Experience & Skills

Customer-Facing Experience (Critical)

10+ years in a customer-facing technical role, such as:

Field Applications Engineer

Sales Engineer

Customer Solutions Engineer

Embedded Systems Consultant

Proven ability to:

Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences

Build credibility and trust with customer engineering teams

Balance multiple customer engagements simultaneously

Embedded Technical Expertise

10+ years of hands-on embedded system design experience

Strong experience with:

o Embedded C/C++

o Microcontrollers and system architecture

o RTOS-based firmware development

o Serial interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, USB etc.)

o Firmware update and bootloader design

o Git-based workflows

Hardware design experience including:

o Schematic capture

o Component selection

o Board bring-up and debugging

Proficiency with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers)

Soft Skills & Mindset

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining solutions from incomplete

requirements

Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Self-directed, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal supervision

Enjoys both technical depth and customer interaction

Able to prioritize across multiple opportunities while maintaining technical excellence

Able to act as a team leader with help drive large designs from

Nice-to-Have (Differentiators)

CI/CD for embedded firmware

Experience with embedded Linux

Secure boot and secure firmware update

Networking (wired or wireless)

Python for automation or tooling

Experience supporting products through volume production

Equal Opportunity Employer - Microchip is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action

Employer of Disabled/Veterans/Minorities/Women. We provide equal employment and

affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color,

religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status,

disability, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state or local laws.

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process because of a medical condition or disability, please send us an email here with

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request.

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