FAE - Senior Field Applications Engineer

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.

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, CA.

• Grow “Security opportunities” funnel by working closely with our Sales and Business teams.
• Act as the security trusted advisor for a 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.
• Provide customers’ inputs to Business Lines and influence security‑related roadmaps.
• Willingness to travel for training or to support other regions as needed.
• Will be member of a function expertise team.

• 4-5 years of experience in embedded systems and outstanding technical skills.
• Knowledge of hardware and software designs with microcontroller/Microprocessor 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.
• Experience in embedded C programming language. Embedded Linux knowledge is a plus.
• BS in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.

• Work effectively with Field Sales and Business Unit teams.
• Ability to operate under minimal guidance and assume personal responsibility/accountability comfortably.
• Establish trust and credibility with customers, distributors, 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.

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Hearing, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Sitting, standing, walking, driving, flying

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry‑leading ESPP program with a 2‑year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below.

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is 93, dollars.
* Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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