Principal Product Application Engineer (m/f/d)

Salary: 43.000 - 72.000 € per year Requirements: We require a university degree in electrical engineering or another related technical discipline. We require at least 5 years of relevant work experience in the semiconductor industry or a related business. We ideally prefer experience in the Automotive, Industrial, or Consumer Electronics environment. We require development and engineering experience, as well as hardware design know-how. Simulation and measurement know-how are a plus. We value entrepreneurial thinking, a result-oriented mindset, and customer focus. We require strong communication and negotiation skills in English; German is a plus. We are looking for a team player with a hands-on mentality and a proven track record in multicultural and international teams. Responsibilities: We are responsible for application strategy and application knowledge management for our Diodes & Transistors portfolio. We provide technical support to our leading customers from the automotive, industrial, and consumer industries. We act as the main interface to our Product Management and R&D teams to build a future-proof product portfolio. We qualify the value of our products by comparing their strengths versus competitive products and quantifying the technical benefits of choosing us. We take the lead on product requirements based on application insights. We represent our application perspective in technical committees and standardization groups and maintain technical contacts with key decision makers and influencers. We translate application expertise and customer insights into customer requirement specifications. We conduct product investigations and circuit analysis at the application level. We set up demo boards and represent our Diodes & Transistors group at trade fairs. Technologies: Hardware Support Network More: We are Nexperia, a world-class semiconductor company with in-house production and a global team of more than 12,000 people. We work with an entrepreneurial mindset in a dynamic, energetic environment where we support, reward, and challenge our people equally. For this Principal Product Application Engineer role, we offer flexible working hours, the possibility of overtime reduction to support work-life balance, an unlimited employment contract with a competitive salary and supplementary voluntary employee benefits, broad training and career development opportunities, and additional benefits such as retirement provisions, public transport travel allowance, company events, sports and leisure activities, and employee discounts. We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessible recruitment, and we support employee resource groups such as Pride and womens networks while working toward increasing women in management positions to 30% by 2030. last updated 28 week of 2026