Digital Field Applications Engineer

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The Digital Field Applications Engineer (DFA) is responsible for partnering with Sales and providing Embedded Processing related technical expertise throughout the sales cycle. The DFA proactively identifies current products and/or creative solutions to solve existing customer projects and create new functionality/opportunities. In this role, the DFA also uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to gain credibility and develop relationships with customers.
Responsibilities include:
Win new customer design commitments
Take customers' designs to revenue by providing prompt and thorough technical support for on-going design activity
Understand customer requirements and propose solutions with TI, customer, or third party software
Recommend and implement system embedded processing solutions to customers in a consultative role
Work closely with the sales team and product group to capture new 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 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: LPW, motor control, audio/video, telecom, security
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
Texas Instruments will not sponsor job applicants for visas or work authorization for this position.
Minimum requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering or related degree
1+ years of engineering experience
Preferred qualifications:
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