Field Application Engineer - AMD Xilinx

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Job Description Applicants for this position must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. MUST be U.S. Citizen

Job Summary:

As the AMD Xilinx dedicated Field Application Engineer you will be a key member of a technical sales team acting as lead for Hardware & Software aspects of our key customers’ systems. An ideal candidate for this role will be an enthusiastic and highly motivated technical individual who wants to be on the cutting edge of SoC technology and proactively engaged with customers in pre- and post-sale design and technical support activities.

Principal Responsibilities:

Drive and manage Xilinx technical related initiatives & activities for key customers in alignment with the AMD Xilinx dedicated Technical Sales Engineer (TSE)
Provide technical leadership and guidance that focuses on AMD Xilinx design win strategies for customer opportunities

Develop relationships with and become trusted advisor to (system) engineers & architects in your assigned key accounts

Drive the technical part of strategy proposals for key customer programs

Leverages understanding of known challenges to advise customer designers on the optimum use of Xilinx IP, software tools and hardware devices

Manage technical support issues within customer base and collaborate/bring in AMD Xilinx technical specialists when required to help solve real time problems (e.g. software tool & IP issues, Design Closure, RTL and simulation assistance, system bring up and debug)
Collaborate with field and AMD Xilinx factory resources to develop and deliver technical proposals to customer project managers, engineering managers, system architects and design engineers that align with customers’ needs

Lead with technical solution creation to show our value proposition (e.g.: hardware, software demos, example designs)
Work with 3rd party ecosystem partners to support mutual beneficial custom solutions into the customer base where applicable

Attend internal and external AMD Xilinx technical training to complete and maintain certification as necessary.

Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

Experience with and understanding at systems level, FPGA and ASIC design tools.

Experience with Vivado/Vitis, ISE or Quartus required (Model Sim is a plus)
Ability to identify a customer’s key care-abouts and thus contribute to overall sales strategy and success

Knowledge of customers' end products including their specific market requirements.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong presentations skills, and the ability to work with multiple groups

Aptitude to communicate clearly at a high system and deep technical levels

Organization skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritize and keep track of activities

Team player with “can do” attitude

Desirable

Skills:

Experience in designing with AMD Xilinx FPGA’s & SoCs (Versal Adaptive SOCs, Virtex, Kintex, Artix & Spartan Class FPGA’s, RFSoC, Zynq Ultra Scale+, & Zynq-7000)
Knowledge of embedded system design tools such as AMD Xilinx’s Vivado & Vitis tools, IP Integrator, or Intel Altera Quartus, and Eclipse based software development environment.

Knowledge of board design requirements for FPGA’s & SoC’s including power distribution & dissipation, high speed interface design, and debug.

Design experience using high performance…