FAE - Senior Field Applications Engineer

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Job Description:

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.

• 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

Reports to: Embedded Solutions Engineer Manager based in Austin, TX

Requirements/Qualifications:

Technical 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

Organizational Skill requirements:

• 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

Additional Desired Skills:

• 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

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