Production Solutions Software - Technical Pre/Post-Sales Engineer

Advantest • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

This role involves being a key strategic partner for customers, providing technical leadership, and uncovering customer challenges and goals. The engineer will translate Advantest's technical capabilities into customer business outcomes and lead customer engagements throughout the sales process, including technical pre-sales, demos, value positioning, implementation, and installation. The position also requires leading cross-functional teams through the solutions lifecycle, from requirements discovery to on-site integration and support. Collaboration with global R&D, Services Sales, and local Account teams is essential, as is sharing new product knowledge. Responsibilities include software installation, upgrades, integration, deployment, and troubleshooting for Production software on Advantest V93K testers.

Requirements

• BS Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Computer Science (BSCS), or equivalent.
• 5-10 years of experience in engineering or production disciplines.
• Strong problem-solving skills, communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Software development experience in C++, Python, Qt, SQL databases.
• Linux system administration & development environment including Linux shell commands, scripts, and networking, rpm installation/creation, etc.
• Advantest’s SmarTest tester operating system and Production APIs.

Nice To Haves

• Semiconductor test industry knowledge.
• Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) tester platforms preferably on Advantest V93000 (V93K) tester.
• Technical sales experience.
• Production support experience.

Responsibilities

• Become a key strategic partner for customers and provide technical leadership.
• Uncover customer challenges and goals (e.g., enabling automation, improving yield, reducing power consumption, shortening TTM).
• Translate Advantest technical capabilities and advantages to customer’s business outcomes.
• Lead the customer engagement during various phases of the sales process: Technical pre-sales, demos, value positioning, implementation, installation.
• Lead a cross-functional team through the solutions life cycle: Requirements discovery, solution design, code development, on-site integration & support.
• Collaborate with global R&D, Services Sales team, and local Account teams.
• Share new product knowledge with key stakeholders.
• Provide software installation, upgrades, integration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Product responsibilities include Production software on Advantest V93K testers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level