Field Application Engineer

Supermicro; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Supermicro in the United Kingdom seeks a Field Application Engineer (FAE) to drive technical pre-sales and project coordination with customers from ground to executive levels. You will collaborate across internal teams to grow opportunities and ensure customer requirements are met.

The role emphasizes customer-facing solution design, POC delivery, and ongoing support, with opportunities to train customers on new products and roadmaps. Excellent communication across levels is essential.

Qualifications

• Degree desirable but not essential; relevant experience counts.
• 5+ years IT experience in Compute, Storage or Networking.
• Strong solution design and diagnostic skills.
• Familiarity with OS, Storage Software, and Network OS.
• Solid background in compute/storage hardware and architecture.
• Excellent presentation and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical pre-sales and occasional post-sales assistance to customers.
• Enrich the Supermicro offering by evangelizing technology and portfolio.
• Assist with technical support escalation and pre-sales queries.
• Be the trusted advisor within customer base up to C-Suite.
• Manage and develop leads from a technical standpoint.
• Deliver POC to end-users and manage POCs end to end.
• Investigate and resolve issues.
• Deliver training to customers and end-users on new offerings.
• Support internal sales with training and meetings.

Skills

Pre-sales

Customer engagement

POC delivery

Training

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Operating Systems knowledge

Storage Software

Network Operating Systems

Job description

About Supermicro

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are amongst the fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer many new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us to drive accelerated growth and technology-led innovation in the global marketplace.

Job Req ID: 29355

Job Req ID: 29355

Job Summary

The Field Application Engineer (FAE) will be part of a growing, dynamic, highly-focused team responsible for developing new or existing opportunities in the global IT market. The FAE will be required to work with customers from ground to executive-level, manage projects hand in hand with internal and external teams, and help grow the business whenever possible. Customer and solution focus, are two key factors for this position, as well as business continuity and support. The FAE must work with multiple departments to ensure new projects and existing projects are initiated or maintained towards customer requirements.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide technical pre-sales and occasional post-sales assistance to customers.
• Enrich the Supermicro offering by evangelizing technology and Supermicro portfolio within enterprise customers.
• Assist with technical support escalation, and pre-sales queries.
• Be the trusted advisor within specific customer base, engaging at all levels within customers, up to C-Suite.
• Manage and develop leads from a technical capability standpoint.
• Deliver POC to end-users, and manage POCs end to end.
• Ability to investigate and work around issues.
• Deliver training to customers and end-users on new product offerings and roadmaps.
• Assist internal sales with training, occasional exhibitions and regular meetings.

Qualifications

• A degree in related field desirable but not necessary. A degree can be offset by relevant experience.
• 5+ years relevant experience within IT, specifically within Compute, Storage, and/or Networking.
• Good solution design and diagnostic skills.
• Familiarity and experience with range of Operating Systems, Storage Software, and/or Network Operating Systems would be beneficial.
• Strong background with compute and storage hardware and architecture desired.
• Good ability to present and communicate ideas and solutions to a wide range of client type.

EEO Statement

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.