Field Applications Engineer | Microcontrollers (Novi, Michigan)

• →Win new customer design commitments
• →Take customers' designs to revenue by providing prompt and thorough technical support for on-going design activity
• →Understand customer MCU requirements and propose solutions with TI, Customer, or third party software
• →Recommend and implement system processor solutions to customers in a consultative role
• →Work closely with the sales team and product group to capture new processor business and successfully take it to revenue
• →Constantly apply lessons learned from customer engagements to refine our competitive understanding
• →Use customer and competitive knowledge to tailor feedback to the product group for new product development
• →Have a grasp of the specific business value ($) that new product enhancements will produce
• →Constantly making technical contributions back to TI's technical community through informal (flex teams, technical forums) and formal (application notes, Tech Day presentations) channels
• →Develop design winning embedded processor customer proposals by recommending optimal solutions to customers; factoring in all technical, cost, time to market and business issues
• →Provide companion system s/w architecture solutions to customers factoring in technical feasibility, integration complexity and related business issues (licensing, intellectual property, costs)
• →Have a system level architecture understanding of complex embedded systems
• →Comprehend and debug complex systems issues (hardware interaction with software and external components)
• →Debug other engineers' designs: hardware and software using TI and industry development tools and test equipment

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• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, ECE, Computer Engineering or related engineering degree
• 5 years of engineering experience in a customer facing role
• Expertise in automotive electronics

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills, with ability to effectively relate materials to customers
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Ability to work effectively in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Ability to efficiently context-switch between multiple concurrent tasks
• Ability to advocate for customer needs (with an understanding of “why”) back into the TI product groups