FAE - Senior Field Applications Engineer

Microchip Technology Inc.•Austin, TX

8d•$93,000 - $226,000

About The Position

Microchip Technology Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Field Applications Engineer to join our South-Central Team. This role is ideal for a unique individual with over 5 years of experience in embedded engineering, possessing outstanding technical skills and a passion for customer engagement. As a Senior Field Applications Engineer, you will leverage your insights and influencing skills to educate clients about their industry and offer unique perspectives on their technology, linking back to Microchip's solutions. Your engineering design skills, techniques, and knowledge will be crucial in decreasing client development time, reducing overall system costs, and improving the performance of their end products. You will provide comprehensive support in hardware, firmware, middleware, and development tools to accelerate the product development schedules of our clients. This position will allow you to become a trusted technical advisor, engaging with clients primarily in the computing industry within the South-Central US region.

Requirements

BSc or BEng in Electronic Engineering or equivalent
5+ years of experience with embedded system design including:
Experience with embedded microcontrollers and system architecture design and development
Experience with embedded C programming language and associated tools
Experience with RTOS
Experience with firmware update and bootloaders in microcontrollers
Experience with I2C/SPI/UART serial communications interfaces
Strong problem solving and system debugging skills
Strong understanding of electrical engineering concepts
Experience with hardware design
Experience with schematic capture and layout tools
Experience with digital logic analyzer tools (such as Saleae Logic Pro)
Experience with Oscilloscopes
Work effectively with Field Sales colleagues and teams
Ability to operate under minimal guidance and assume personal responsibility/accountability comfortably
Establish trust and credibility with customers and regional teams
Effectively manage prioritization of many opportunities and customers
Self-starting learner – proactively keeps up to date with new technologies and products
Work effectively with other regions and divisional applications
Proficient written and verbal skills in English
Accomplished Presentation and Training skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with GIT source control management
Experience with secure boot and secure firmware update in microcontrollers
Experience with wired or wireless networking hardware/software
Experience with embedded Linux
Experience with TDD for embedded C
Experience with Agile project management
Understanding of PC and Server architecture
Experience with Python

Responsibilities

Drive design wins to revenue applying the Microchip Total System Solutions approach
Adopt, lead, and comprehensively utilize all elements of Microchip’s Sales Operating System to create and secure design-wins
Develop custom embedded firmware solutions to support customer designs
Provide in-depth engineering support and assist customers with hardware and software development
Adapt existing reference designs to address specific customer needs
Will primarily work with clients in the computing industry
Travel to receive training or to support other regions as needed

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments.
In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature.
Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:
Benefits of working at Microchip

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