Senior Field Applications Engineer - Automotive

For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career! 
Cirrus Logic is a fabless semiconductor company delivering high-precision analog and mixed-signal ICs for some of the world's most demanding applications. We are at an exciting inflection point — actively diversifying our business beyond our core markets, with automotive as a primary growth vector. This role is central to that effort. 
The Senior FAE is a customer-facing technical leader with a primary focus on automotive accounts across the Americas. Beyond automotive, this person will also play an active role in helping Cirrus Logic identify and execute on broader diversification opportunities — working alongside the sales team to engage new markets and customers where our technology can win. You will work at the intersection of applications engineering, strategic selling, and product marketing — serving as the technical authority for customers and a key feedback channel to Cirrus Logic's business units. 
This is not a reactive support role. We expect this person to proactively identify platform opportunities, shape customer architectures early in the design cycle, and close designs before the competition does.  

Customer Engagement & Design Win Execution

• 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 

Automotive-Specific Responsibilities

• 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 Cirrus Logic business units — influencing roadmap prioritization and new product definition 
• Collaborate with Cirrus Logic 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 

Broad Market & Diversification

• Identify and engage emerging customer opportunities outside of automotive — helping the team validate where Cirrus Logic's technology can create value in new markets 
• Identify disruptive customers and platform shifts; push market intelligence back to Cirrus Logic business units to influence roadmap 
• Develop reusable technical collateral that scales the team's impact across accounts, and feed structured market and customer insights back to Cirrus Logic business units to shape roadmap decisions 

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the voice of the customer with product marketing, BU 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 

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 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 d