Field Application Engineer

326 Altera Semiconductor Technology UK Limited; Marlow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera is seeking a motivated Field Application Engineer (FAE) to work with the UK sales team and customers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. This role focuses on technical consulting, guiding customers from architectural evaluation through design completion and helping them maximize business potential with Altera FPGA products, IP, boards and software stacks.

You will collaborate with sales and other FAEs to grow the customer base, present product capabilities, and deliver tailored technical

Qualifications

• BS in Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years industry experience.
• Experience with FPGA design and proficiency with FPGA development tools.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and execute territory, account and opportunity plans as part of the Sales Team.
• Engage with customers' system architects and decision makers to understand applications and influence design choices.
• Present capabilities of the product portfolio and drive feasibility studies and proofs of concept.
• Build strong relationships with key influencers inside and outside the company.
• Provide technical support throughout the design cycle from architecture to production.

Skills

FPGA design

Presentation skills

Interpersonal skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Willing to travel

Education

BS in Electronics Engineering

Tools

FPGA development tools

Job description

Job Details: Job Description

Altera delivers cutting-edge custom logic solutions across a wide spectrum of customers and markets. As the only “pure play” independent FPGA provider, with a complete portfolio from low, mid to high end, we are perfectly positioned to take a leading position in this exciting market. To help our customers develop innovative solutions, we are looking for a motivated Field Application Engineer (FAE) to work with our UK sales team and customers. As an Altera FAE, you will use your strong technical and business acumen to build strong relationships with key strategic customers, understand their system requirements, win new designs, and drive business growth in accordance with company goals, processes, and values. You will be the technical consultant to our key customers as they go from architectural evaluation, through completion of their design. This will require guidance on our FPGA product lines and associated development tools, IP, boards, and software stacks, enabling our customers to bring competitive products to market quickly and maximize business potential. In this role, you will partner with Sales & other FAEs to develop the customer base and drive technical business development.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and execute to territory, account and opportunity plans as part of the Sales Team
• Engage with our customer's high level system architects and key decision makers to understand their systems applications, influence their design choices, and provide creative solutions to their problems, ensuring that they are architected around Altera products.
• Present capabilities of whole product portfolio, drive feasibility studies and proofs of concept in customer meetings and seminars.
• Build strong, valued relationships with key influencers at all levels within our customers and internally within Altera.
• Provide technical support throughout the customer design cycle, from architecture through production.
• Create and deliver technical proposals based on product portfolio knowledge, customer requirements, and inputs from internal teams.
• Demonstrate effective leadership in coordinating specialist technical resources.
• Demonstrate teamwork and ability to work effectively in informal and formal teams with individuals from diverse communities and cultures, at all levels within the company.
• Maintain up-to-date technical knowledge of Altera’s solutions relevant to your customers’ requirements.
• Understand your customers’ end markets and how Intel products can help them win.
• Ensure that Altera's roadmap is aligned with our customers’ long-term requirements
• Have strong presentation and communication skills that can be applied at all levels

Qualifications

• BS in Electronics Engineering or equivalent, with a minimum of 10 years industry experience
• Experience with FPGA design & proficient in the use of FPGA development tools
• Strong presentation & interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Willing to travel both domestically and internationally

Job Type

Regular

Shift

Shift 1 (United Kingdom)

Primary Location

Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

About Altera

Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.