FAE

Diodes•Milpitas, CA

6d•Remote

About The Position

Diodes Incorporated is seeking a Field Applications Engineer responsible for supporting major automotive customer accounts in the North Central Region. Primary responsibilities include proactively solving design challenges through creative application solutions and product recommendations. The position requires a significant amount of customer interfacing activity and demands excellent oral and written communication skills in addition to a strong technical background and experience with discrete semiconductors, analog ICs, power management devices, quartz frequency control devices, plus timing and connectivity ICs.

Requirements

Ability to dissect technical needs and communicate product and application suggestions
BSEE required
at least 10 years of design experience
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Strong design and technical background
Keen problem-solving skill set
Proactive self-starter capable of working independently with minimal supervision and high capacity to support multiple tasks with varying levels of complexity
Ability to work as part of a team to solve complex problems
Ability to communicate product and application suggestions to the Marketing Team

Nice To Haves

Automotive experience
Understanding of AEC-Q and PPAP requirements

Responsibilities

Assist in managing the territory to provide customers with technical and sales support for such company products as diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, function-specific arrays, logic devices, crystals, crystal oscillators, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature sensors, power management devices, including LED drivers, AC-DC converters and controllers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, and voltage references along with special function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, motor controllers, connectivity and timing ICs, redrivers and retimers, and PCIe packet switches
Work closely with automotive customers to understand their system application requirements for the purpose of obtaining new sales opportunities and providing technical recommendations
Collaborate with Diodes’ marketing and engineering groups to define new products to meet customer needs.
Advocate new technology solutions with the assigned customer base and support the automotive design cycle
Prepare data and documentation for customer product presentations, conduct training sessions and demonstrating new products
Prepare data and documentation for territory presentations at quarterly business meetings
Act in an engineering teaching capacity with sales channels and customer design teams
Align with Regional Sales Manager on managing the sales cycle for new business opportunities