Principal Product Application Engineer

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electronics Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• Strong background in power electronics from low voltage up to 1200V
• Proven hands-on hardware development experience, including design, bring-up, debug, and validation
• Experience with GaN or SiC, preferred
• Strong system-level mindset linking application and device behavior
• Experience in benchmarking and performance analysis
• Understanding of AI and data center power, a plus
• Understanding of motor control, including humanoid robotics, a plus
• Ability to manage hardware and software development end to end
• Practical, lab-oriented, problem-solving approach
• Strong communication skills and global customer engagement capability

Responsibilities:

• Own application projects end to end, including specification, design, development, validation, and deployment
• Develop hardware and software evaluation platforms to demonstrate GaN performance in real conditions
• Perform in-application validation and characterization aligned with system requirements
• Conduct benchmarking across silicon, silicon carbide, and GaN in efficiency, power density, thermal behavior, and system performance
• Drive system-level analysis and optimization by translating use cases into actionable insights
• Drive product definition with Marketing and GaN R&D using application-driven insights
• Act as the central technical authority for customers, supporting deep-dive technical discussions, design reviews, and in-depth application analysis
• Generate data-driven technical content such as application notes, reference designs, and documentation
• Collaborate with leading research institutes and universities on advanced application R&D projects
• Represent the company at academic and industry technical GaN events

Technologies:

• AI
• Hardware
• Support
• Marketing
• Network
• Robotics

More:

We are Nexperia, and this Principal Product Applications Engineer role sits within TeamNexperia in Manchester. We offer flexible working hours, the possibility of overtime reduction to support work-life balance, an unlimited employment contract, competitive salary, supplementary voluntary employee benefits, and a wide range of training and career development options. Our benefits also include retirement provisions, travel allowance for public transport tickets, company events, sports and leisure activities, and employee discounts. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, reasonable adjustments where needed, and employee resource groups such as Pride Network Group and global and local Womens groups.

last updated 34 week of 2026