FAE - Field Applications Engineer

## FAE - Field Applications Engineer Apply locations:
CA - San Jose - Holgertime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
R2497-26

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.

People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values;

we affectionately refer to it as the
* Aggregate System
* and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.

Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!
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* Job Description:

** Our Northwest Sales and Application team is seeking an FAE (Field Application Engineer). You will utilize your engineering design skills, techniques, and knowledge to decrease client development time, reduce overall system cost and improve the performance of our client’s end products. You will also provide hardware, firmware, middleware, and development tools support for clients to accelerate their product development schedule.

You will become a trusted technical advisor. This position will expose you to a wide variety of challenging applications spanning consumer, transportation, medical, military, and security markets.

Microchip Technology offers meaningful opportunities, promoting fairness, integrity and employee empowerment, in a dynamic work environment.
** Overview
* * Primarily customer engagement role to drive design wins to revenue at large accounts, by providing in-depth engineering support including creation of demos or proof of concepts to end customers. Some specific embedded expertise may be required. Visiting, training, and advising customers are also part of the job. Reports to FAE Manager based in San Jose, CAMain Functions include:
* Grow “Security opportunities” funnel by working closely with our Sales and Business teams.
* Act as the security trusted advisor for broad portfolio of Microchip Security products and Solutions
* Provide in-depth engineering support and assist customers with hardware and software development.
* Develop proof-of-concept solutions for helping our clients get familiar with Microchip products.
* Provides customers’ inputs to Business Lines and influence security related roadmaps.
* Willingness to travel to receive training or to support other regions as needed.
* Will be member of a function expertise team.
** Requirements/

Qualifications:

** Technical Skills
* Experience in embedded systems and outstanding technical skills
* Knowledge of hardware and software designs with microcontroller/Microprocessor (Microchip preferred) based Embedded Systems.
* Know-how of embedded security cryptography, PKI principles and certificate management
* Working knowledge of hardware-based security techniques (Hardware Security Modules, Trust Zone, Secure Boot, etc.) into a robust hardware/software system design
* Working knowledge of IOT systems and cloud connectivity (Google, AWS, Azure)
* Experience in design or technical support is a plus.
* Experienced in embedded C programming language. Embedded Linux knowledge is a plus.
* BS in Electronic Engineering or equivalent

Organizational skills
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