Field Application Engineer

Arrow Electronics

298d • $76,600 - $137,500

About The Position

Are you a self-starter? Do you think different? At Arrow Electronics, our values system empowers our employees to develop and thrive in a supportive, collaborative, professional, global, and rewarding working environment. We embrace change and continuous improvement, driving both to the mutual benefit of our clients and ourselves. We are looking for like-minded people who can share our passion for success. As a Field Application Engineer, you will engage with clients to create technical solutions while identifying and building new business using your engineering expertise.

Requirements

• BSEE or Equivalent and 5+ years of related work experience.
• Hardware/System Design experience and/or electromechanical experience.
• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions.
• Works independently; receives minimal guidance.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products/services or processes.
• Often leads the work of project teams; may formally train junior staff.

Nice To Haves

• Embedded Development experience.
• RTOS experience.
• FPGA or other specialized experience.
• Sales or customer facing experience.

Responsibilities

• Utilize an advanced understanding of the customer needs and technical leadership expertise to champion return on engineering investment.
• Participate as technical lead on large, complex customer engagements involving broad, system solutions and identify and drive demand creation by maximizing Arrow content on designs.
• Partner with the sales team across pre-and post-sales activities, providing advanced technical support and consulting to promote demand creation.
• Champion return on engineering investment, design win priorities, initiatives, and promotions by obtaining buy-in and support from sales.
• Provide technical leadership to the branch, customers, and suppliers shaping strategy and guiding technical direction/priorities.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of supplier technologies and how those technologies relate to market needs, including vertical segmentation.
• Position Arrow’s differential value proposition, supplier technologies, as well as, competitor technologies.
• Possess a complete knowledge of products and full knowledge of entire scope of assigned lines.
• Attend supplier trainings.
• Manage supplier and customer expectations by building and developing relationships with senior level decision makers, keeping stakeholders up-to-date on activities, plans, and progressing towards initiatives.
• Deepen and broaden connections with key decision makers within suppliers and customers.
• Attend and actively participate in strategic branch meetings and QBR.
• Use ROI concepts for making strategic business plans and decisions.
• Develop and drive strategic technical plans by supplier line or customer solutions.
• Successfully create, organize and conduct engineering customer events or conference or engineering training.
• Support design services initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance.
• 401k, With Matching Contribution.
• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options.
• Paid Time Off (including, sick, holiday, vacation, etc.).
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Growth Opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree