Staff Field Applications Engineer

As a Staff Field Applications Engineer at Wolfspeed, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and partners to drive adoption of SiC power solutions. You will collaborate with Sales, Product Marketing, Quality, and Engineering to support opportunities from evaluation through production, delivering expert guidance and troubleshooting across the design cycle. Your work will influence system-level designs and enable strategic design wins in Wolfspeed’s leading SiC portfolio. This role is highly customer-facing and offers the chance to shape best practices and future direction in a fast-growing technology area.

• Partner with Sales Account Managers to secure design wins and support revenue growth
• Qualify customer opportunities and assess the suitability of SiC power devices for their applications
• Provide pre-sales technical support to demonstrate system-level benefits and communicate the value of SiC solutions
• Support customers throughout the design cycle—from samples and prototypes to pilot, pre-production, and full production—including hardware debug and system-level guidance
• Support quality team on customer claims to determine root causes of field application failures
• Use strong technical knowledge to address field requests with minimal support from factory engineering
• Manage and train distribution FAEs to ensure consistent technical capability across the channel
• Maintain effective communication with business unit teams to address customer technical requests
• Deliver customer feedback and application insights to Marketing to support new product development
• Leverage our Munich Lab to identify best practices for SiC component usage and generate new technical knowledge

• MSc in Electrical or Electronic Engineering
• 3–5 years in power semiconductor FAE, application engineer, or R&D in power electronics for >1 kW
• Strong technical communication with customers and engineers
• Solid understanding of power electronics topologies (hard- and soft-switching)
• Comfortable with high-voltage semiconductor devices
• Experience in circuit design, component selection, loss calculations, layout, and magnetic design; automotive experience is a plus
• Knowledge of semiconductor devices (diodes, BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, IGBTs)
• Strong analytical mindset and teamwork
• Familiarity with JEDEC, AEC-Q, UL, EMI/EMC
• Willingness to travel for on-site support
• MS Office and LTspice/PLECS
• English plus another language; able to work independently
• Legal ability to access controlled data per US export laws; visa sponsorship not available

• Strong technical communication
• Team collaboration
• Proactivity
• Power electronics topologies (hard/soft switching)
• High-voltage device handling
• Circuit design, loss calculations, layout, magnetic design