Principal Product Application Engineer (m/f/d) – Diodes & Transistors (Ingenieur/in - Elektrotechnik)

About the job

As Principal Product Application Engineer, you will be responsible for the Application Strategy and Application Knowledge management for our Diodes & Transistors portfolio. In addition to technical support for our leading customers from the automotive, industrial and consumer industries, you are our main interface to our Product Management and R&D teams in order to build up a future proof product portfolio.

What you will do

- Qualify the value of Nexperia's products (strengths versus competitive products) and quantify the technical benefits derived from choosing Nexperia
- Take the lead for product requirements based on application insights
- Represent Nexperia’s application perspective in technical comities and Standardization groups as well as establishing and maintaining technical contacts to key decisions makers and influencers like Car OEMs and reference design houses and of course Industry Lead Customers
- Translate application expertise and customer insights into “customer requirement specifications” and build a future proof product portfolio
- Conduct product investigations and circuit analysis on application level
- Set up demo boards and represent the Nexperia Diodes & Transistors group at trade fairs

What you will need

- University degree in electrical engineering or other related technical discipline
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in the semiconductor industry or in a related business
- Ideally proven experience within the Automotive/Industrial/Consumer Electronics environment
- Development and Engineering experience, as well as hardware design know how
- Simulation and measurement know-how are a plus
- Entrepreneurial thinking, result oriented, customer focused
- Strong communication and negotiation skills in English. German language is a plus
- Team player with hands-on mentality and proven track record in working in multicultural/international teams