Manager, Field Applications Engineering – Strategic Accounts; Power

Renesas is seeking a highly skilled Manager of Field Applications Engineering to lead strategic technical engagement with our most important AI and hyperscaler customers. This role leads a high-performance team of power supply FAEs supporting AI accelerators, servers, and networking platforms that are critical to Renesas’ long-term growth.

This is a senior player/coach position. The role balances hands-on ownership of customer power programs with leadership and development of a growing FAE organization. Success requires deep power electronics expertise, strong customer credibility, and the ability to scale technical execution across multiple strategic accounts.

• Serve as the senior technical interface for strategic datacenter accounts, driving system-level power architecture engagements from early concept through production.
• Provide expert leadership on digital multiphase power, power modules, and server-class power delivery architectures supporting AI accelerators, CPUs, and networking platforms.
• Personally engage in the most complex customer programs, including architecture reviews, schematic and layout feedback, validation planning, bring-up, power sequencing analysis, transient response evaluation, and debug.
• Rapidly troubleshoot complex power issues using lab instrumentation including oscilloscopes, current probes, electronic loads, and transient analysis tools.
• Lead technical escalations with internal engineering teams to ensure rapid, high-quality resolution of customer issues.
• Deliver high-quality customer-facing materials such as validation results, program updates, technical summaries, and program closure reports.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of power supply FAEs supporting strategic AI and hyperscaler customers.
• Coach FAEs on system-level power thinking, executive communication, and sound technical judgment in complex customer environments.
• Build onboarding and training plans for new college graduates and early-career FAEs, ensuring readiness for lab work and customer-facing engagements.
• Conduct performance reviews and support career development across the team.
• Guide resource allocation across accounts, balancing customer priorities, program risk, and team bandwidth.
• Establish a high-performance culture with clear standards for ownership, technical rigor, and execution quality. Hold the team accountable to outcomes and model the behaviors expected through disciplined, high-impact customer engagement.

• Own technical program execution for top datacenter customers, spanning AI accelerators, server platforms, and high-performance networking systems.
• Partner closely with Sales and GAM leadership to align customer priorities, program sequencing, and allocation of FAE resources.
• Maintain program visibility through clear tracking of milestones, risks, validation status, and next-step actions.
• Provide concise and actionable technical updates to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with Product Line and Marketing teams to translate strategic customer power requirements into product feedback and roadmap influence.
• Champion field insights related to next-generation power architectures, digital multiphase solutions, and module-based system power.
• Coordinate technical handoffs and shared engagements across global FAE teams.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• Significant prior experience as a Field Applications Engineer with hands-on responsibility for power supply or power management products.
• 8+ years of experience in power electronics, digital multiphase power delivery, server…