Field Applications Engineer Job Description
Field applications engineer
provides provisioning and programming of telecommunications or network equipment including phone systems, remote terminal devices, switches, routers and SONET equipment.
Field Applications Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Customer technical sales support
Customer updates and status
Internal product testing
Perform Optics measurement system installation and training
Perform testing on customer sample optics to demonstrate application of the product
First point of contact to diagnose service problems with installed metrology systems
Participate in trade shows and visit customers
Provide input and assist in keeping marketing documentation accurate and up to date
Integrate, troubleshoot and repair complex processes
Assist in the development of quotations and proposals
Field Applications Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Field Applications Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: NABCEP, NICET, ACQUA, CCNA, IC, PMP, ESD, EMI, CCENT
Education for Field Applications Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the field applications engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technical, Education, Computer Science, Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics, Physics, Business
Skills for Field Applications Engineer
Desired skills for field applications engineer include:
Tracking antennas
IP encryption devices
Standard test equipment and communications theory
Switches
Application and troubleshooting of routers
IAR
Eclipse
Linux/Unix operating system and IP/Networking equipment
SATA
External business issues to improve products/services
Desired experience for field applications engineer includes:
Ability to successfully manage multiple complex projects during implementation of new technology and products
In-depth knowledge of computer systems architecture beneficial
3 years of Android and Linux system administration
Comfortable with at least one scripting language
A degree from a leading university in an Engineering discipline
Software development in Linux/QNX would be a plus
Field Applications Engineer Examples
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Field Applications Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a field applications engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for field applications engineer
- Identify and communicate the needed Marketing Communication literature, product documentation, and process documentation (e.g., product guides, cross references, advertisements, ) to customers
- Identify and communicate and/or develop technical, customer focused application notes and other collateral (e.g., product guides, cross references, datasheets, system compatibility guides)
- Perform measurement system installation and training
- Work closely with sales and marketing to provide pre-sale and post-sale application engineering support in order to provide additional value to our customers
- Contribute to Enterprise Solutions product literature maintenance by identifying inconsistencies and errors
- Provide engineering/application support to Enterprise's customer base and sales personnel by answering questions concerning IBW solution performance, applications, and RF/electrical/mechanical characteristics
- This engineer will work under a senior level Field Applications Engineer to assist with the development of new customer designs, perform technical reviews, provide analysis and troubleshooting efforts and conduct new product evaluations
- Efforts will be focused on understanding and demonstrating Intersil’s value proposition and solving technical concerns in order to ensure that the customer uses Intersil products
- Work closely with local and International Sales Team to develop significant business with key customers through the distribution sales channels
- Prepare and issue Product Development Team (PDT) meeting minutes
Qualifications for field applications engineer
- Comfortable working hands-on in a lab environment with test equipment and procedures
- GPU & Graphics knowledge would be a plus
- Work closely with the regional sales team to support large customer opportunities and rollouts through system design, specification, proposal, and installation
- Provide project oversight on complex opportunities - report project status to regional sales leaders
- Conduct sales and technical training sessions for key customers and channel partners, and assist with setup and manning of booth during regional trade shows
- Work with the QA, engineering, product management, and technical support teams to identify potential product or integration issues
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Field Applications Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a field applications engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for field applications engineer
- Investigate and recommend design and packaging alternatives
- Responsible for sales reporting through weekly and monthly executive summaries including financials and forecasting
- Support LCM customers in China
- Co-work with other FAEs for project design wins at OEM customers
- Collaborate with local Sales team to set up customer design win strategy and win customer projects through promotion, solution design, performance tuning and issue fixing
- Interact with the engineering leaders of LCM customers
- Provide regular technical training to VARs and LCM customers
- Design and develop wireless communication test solutions using C/C++ code to integrate test equipment, test flows, and devices into a test application
- To develop new product definition jointly with customer and product lines
- Provide technical support to customers and the field sales force
Qualifications for field applications engineer
- Site engineering visits to support key projects within the region as necessary and determined by the needs of the regional sales team, director of quality assurance, or the director of field applications
- BA/BSD preferred but not required
- Tenacity and follow up skills
- Candidate must be self motivated
- Experience with spherical optics preferred
- Experience with optics manufacturing preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a field applications engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for field applications engineer
- Provide product application, test and reliability specification support to regional sales managers and customers
- Cooperate closely with sales team to drive all opportunities to achieve Design In and Design Win
- Program Manager and Strategist responsible for leading a global effort to ensure revenue realization
- Identify leads and develop prospects’ enthusiasm in our technologies
- Help technically qualify sales opportunities
- Provide technical support for pre-sales opportunities
- Implement projects for key customers to secure our commercial success
- Work alongside customers with our products to ensure their own success
- Act as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) for named accounts
- Create new technical materials
Qualifications for field applications engineer
- 5+ years development experience or highly technical support experience in the fields of optical communication (optical cables and transceivers)
- Knowledge of short and long range optical transceivers design concepts, tradeoffs and testing methods
- Knowledge of different optical transmission specifications (SR4, LR4, PSM4, NRZ/PAM4, CWDM )
- Knowledge in InfiniBand and/or 100 Gigabit Ethernet networking spec
- Knowledge in hardware design, particularly in the area of high-speed communication
- 3-5 years with bachelor's or equivalent combination of formal education and directly related experience
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Field Applications Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of field applications engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for field applications engineer
- Requirement to deliver customer training's, troubleshooting on the above listed product lines
- Provide technical consultation to Field Sales personnel and the Industrial Metrology (IM) dealer network in matters relating to advanced applications and systems
- Facilitate the flow and accuracy of technical information to the Field Sales force
- Maintain a focus on advanced applications and new Zeiss IM technology
- Support the introduction of new products into the North American Market
- Provide technical training programs to the Field Sales personnel, Applications Engineers and IM dealer network
- Plan, prepare and perform high quality customer demonstrations, both in-house and in the field as needed
- Provide technical after-sales support for customers to help ensure successful use of our systems
- Provide customer training as needed to supplement the Application Engineering staff
- Serve as direct, first line of technical contact in product development
Qualifications for field applications engineer
- Minimum BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or other technical major
- This individual must have customer handling skills like communication, relationship management
- This position requires frequent interaction with customers, managing both technical and business related challenges
- Experience with communication IC is essential
- Design, product, test, support, system, FAE, and/or applications engineering experience in DRAM
- Problem solving and troubleshooting skills including lab testing (oscilloscope and logic analyzer usage) and debug
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Field Applications Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of field applications engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for field applications engineer
- Work as a team member with regional sales managers and other FAEs worldwide
- Provide pre-release technical information and technical content for documentation, post-release assistance with troubleshooting issues
- Identify customer requirements and efficiently communicate them to our engineering team and suppliers
- Provide engineering design support to facilitate fast and easy adoption of our products
- Provide R&D engineering support to our customers
- The FAE may be required to travel up to 50% of the time, both domestic and international
- Customer visits to silicon manufacturers and OEM/ODM customers
- Analyze industry and market technical requirements to define future product development needs
- Aid in development of business plans and justification of department and company resources
- Customer visits to third-party (silicon) manufacturers OEM/ODM customers
Qualifications for field applications engineer
- The ability to work with engineers across multiple disciplines, customers of various positions including executive level interaction
- Good working knowledge of non-volatile and volatile memory products
- Semiconductor EQ Engineer experience
- Experience delivering technical presentations to external/internal customers, management
- Experience with the use of FPGA development tools (Quartus, Vivado)
- Experience with embedded system debug tools (DS-5, GNU)