Factory Automation - Software Development and Sales Support Engineer

Advantest America; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest America is seeking a professional to develop SECS/GEM factory automation solutions and to lead customer engagements with a cross-functional team through the full life cycle from requirements discovery to on-site support.

You will translate Advantest capabilities into tangible business outcomes, support pre-sales activities with technical demos, and collaborate with R&D, services sales, and local account teams to ensure successful implementations and installations.

Qualifications

• Experience with SECS/GEM in a manufacturing or fab environment.
• Ability to lead cross-functional engagements across engineering, sales, and services.
• Strong communication skills for customer demonstrations and value positioning.

Responsibilities

• Develop SECS/GEM Factory Automation solutions for customers.
• Lead customer engagements with a cross-functional team through requirements discovery to on-site support.
• Support sales processes with technical demos, value positioning, implementation, and installation.
• Uncover customer challenges and goals such as automation, yield improvements, power reduction, and faster time-to-market.
• Translate Advantest capabilities into customer business outcomes.
• Collaborate with R&D, Services Sales, and local account teams.

Skills

SECS/GEM

Factory Automation

Cross-functional Collaboration

Pre-sales Support

Job description

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop SECS/GEM Factory Automation solutions.
• Lead the customer engagement with a cross-functional team during various phases of the:
  • Solutions life cycle: Requirements discovery, solution design, code development, on-site integration & support.
  • Sales process: Technical pre-sales, demos, value positioning, implementation, and installation.

Advanced Responsibilities:

• Uncover customer challenges and goals (e.g., enabling automation, improving yield, reducing power consumption, shortening TTM.
• Translate Advantest technical capabilities and advantages to customer's business outcomes.
• Collaborate with R&D, Services Sales team, and local account teams.