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Field Application Engineers (FAEs) are the pre-sales and post-sales technical backbone of semiconductor, embedded systems, industrial electronics, and EDA companies in India. They bridge the gap between a chip or component vendor (Texas Instruments, NXP, Analog Devices, Renesas, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Microchip, and Indian distributors like Arrow, Avnet, and Rashi Peripherals) and the customer's hardware design team. An FAE spends 40-50% of their time in customer labs — probing circuits, debugging reference designs, running evaluation board demos, and answering schematic review questions — and the rest writing application notes, presenting at design-in reviews, and feeding product feedback to the vendor's product-line teams. In India, the role is concentrated in Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai design centers — cities where fabless semiconductor customers like Qualcomm India, MediaTek India, Bosch, Honeywell, Continental, and hundreds of embedded product startups run their hardware development. Freshers enter via B.E./B.Tech in Electronics or ECE; senior FAEs with 8+ years become technical managers, product marketing engineers, or country application engineering leads at global semiconductor firms.