Application Engineer

About Ceva:

Ceva is the leader in innovative silicon and software IP solutions that enable smart edge products to connect, sense, and infer data more reliably and efficiently. We help the world’s leading semiconductor companies and original equipment manufacturers turn great ideas into extraordinary products.

About the role

Ceva is at the forefront of AI inference and signal processing, powering some of the world's most advanced edge devices with our NPU, Connectivity, Wireless, and Sensing IP platforms. As part of our Customer Solutions Group, you'll join a senior team of technical experts who are the bridge between Ceva's engineering depth and the real-world needs of customers and partners worldwide.

This is a customer-facing role focused on Ceva's AI Division, spanning the full customer lifecycle, from pre-sales technical evaluation through post-sales integration. The role combines technical account management with disciplined operational follow-through on behalf of assigned customers.

You'll engage in complex, deeply technical conversations that require strong engineering understanding paired with the communication skills and gravitas to represent Ceva credibly to customers.

What you'll do

Act as the senior technical point of contact for assigned customers, representing Ceva credibly and in depth on our AI Division's product status, roadmap, and forward plans, including presenting technical material and traveling on-site as needed.

Own the operational flow of customer communications, triaging incoming requests, routing them to the right internal stakeholders, and driving each item to closure.

Proactively track all open commitments and milestones on behalf of assigned accounts, ensuring nothing slips and that customers receive timely, accurate status updates.

Support pre-sales technical engagements - demonstrating product value, evaluating customer use cases, and contributing to proof-of-concept efforts.

Guide customers through post-sales integration, helping them get the most out of Ceva's tools and software stack.

Maintain and grow the organization's knowledge base of customer environments, technical challenges, and solved cases.

Requirements:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering - strong academic track record.
• 3-4 years of relevant technical experience, with a solid foundation that enables credible, in-depth engagement.
• Proven hands-on experience with embedded systems, ideally gained in the semiconductor industry or another multidisciplinary hardware/software environment.
• Comfortable working directly with customers and translating technical complexity into clear, actionable communication.
• Highly methodical and organized, comfortable managing many parallel open threads, tracking commitments rigorously, and driving items to closure across multiple internal teams.
• Proactive approach to learning, someone who actively keeps up with a fast-moving AI and NPU ecosystem and brings new knowledge into the team
• Strong written and verbal English - precise, confident, and professional.

Strong advantages

• Project management experience or hands-on PM background, timeline management, dependencies, and cross-functional delivery.