Enterprise Field Application Engineer

The Enterprise Field Applications Engineer (FAE) is a highly skilled individual with a combination of deep technical ECAD expertise along with excellent communication skills who plays an indispensable part in bridging the gap between the Altium Enterprise sales team Enterprise customers and the Enterprise Implementation team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in ECAD presales activities including working directly with Enterprise Account Managers to qualify opportunities demonstrating product functionality in the context of our overall solution and developing customer success and deployment plans in support of Enterprise post-sale activity. The Enterprise FAE ensures that there is a full technical understanding of the as-is customer environment and can discuss and demonstrate the value of Altiums Enterprise solutions in the context of their specific to-be requirements. This role includes the ability to demonstrate effectiveness in understanding both internal and external stakeholder requirements define strong technical strategies in the context of the customers business goals and provide clear communication regarding the value of Altium solutions based on customer-specific technical requirements.

This position is located in Frisco TX or La Jolla CA offices and is on-site five days a week.

Key Competencies

• Strong knowledge of the EDA industry its products and competitive landscape
• Proficiency with Altium design and data management tools preferred
• Ability to understand and clearly communicate Altiums Enterprise goals and objectives
• Ability to think strategically and define how our proposed ECAD Data Management solution will help Altium and the customer achieve mutual success.
• Possess ability to be empathetic understand specific customer requirements how they think understand what their goals are why an ECAD Data Management solution is important to their business and develop a proposed plan to address their specific needs
• Be proactive and leverage ECAD-specific technical expertise project management and communication skills to work effectively with sales deployment and extended technical and cross-functional teams

Position Requirements:

• Work closely with Enterprise Account Managers and Enterprise Implementation Managers to understand customer requirements and define technical solutions to support the strategy
• Conduct Discovery calls to understand current customer environment business goals technical challenges and Conduct product demonstrations presentations and technical training sessions for customers
• Manage the technical strategy ensuring the customers requirements and expectations are properly setServe as the primary technical point-of-contact for customers and assist them with product requirement definition integration and specific adoption issues during presales stage
• Build excellent customer relationships and provide technical influence to help them to adopt recommended best practices
• Work with the Deployment team to help handle escalations of deployment and customer productivity blocking issues by coordinating related activities with Sales R&D and Customer Success (Tech Support)
• Collaborate with R&D/engineering teams to identify and resolve product/performance issues
• Participate in product development review meetings and represent voice of the customer
• Become a trusted technical advisor by proactively staying up-to-date on industry trends competitive products and positioning 
• Use in-depth knowledge of client industry business processes and deep knowledge of the product and technical expertise to drive and increase adoption and usage of Altium Enterprise solutions
• Ability to create technical presentations and demonstrations to target individual customers on an as needed basis
• Travel to customer sites as needed to better understand requirements and/or provide onsite technical support

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree and experience
• At least 5 years of experience in ECAD presales Enterprise engagements customer success account management and/or a client-facing role in EDA
• Experience with ECAD tools* including schematic and PCB design project data management library/component management PLM integration MCAD Collaboration process definition and management workflows and signal integrity analysis (*Altium tools preferred)
• Ability to engage customers at business level to drive alignment and execution of ECAD strategy
• Ability to be highly effective in a team and matrix management organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel 25%

Additional Information :

The expected annual pay range for this position is $150000 - $170000. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical health savings account (with applicable medical plan) dental vision health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts pre-tax commuter benefits life insurance AD&D and pet addition to elective benefit options benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D LTD short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time paid holidays and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. As the industrys leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive industrial infrastructure and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio including High Performance Computing Embedded Processing Analog & Connectivity and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22000 professionals in more than 30 countries we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow To Make Our Lives Easier.     
 
At Renesas you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers evolving needs and help make peoples lives easier safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex race religion national origin gender gender identity gender expression age sexual orientation military status veteran status or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. For more information please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation collaboration and continuous learning.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time