What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Applications Engineer (FAE) - Automotive position at Amphenol TCS?
Amphenol High Speed and Commercial Products Groups are the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors, this role is part of the Strategic Markets team (Automotive/Industrial/Consumer). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEM's globally. We are currently seeking a Field Applications Engineer to join our West Coast team. The position will be located in the Bay area.
Position Summary: Field Applications Engineer (FAE)
Location: Santa Clara, CA
We are currently seeking a Field Applications Engineer to support our Strategic Markets clients. The position will be based out of our sales office located in Santa Clara, CA.
Responsibilities:
We value our relationships with these companies, and we depend on our Sales and Field Applications Engineering Teams to foster these ongoing business partnerships.
The FAE engineering team interfaces with customers, internal product development, product marketing, and the extended sales team to provide world-class interconnect solutions to our customers.
- Engineering resource on the sales team to lead technical aspects of the sales cycle; discovery, design, prototyping, and production
- Providing technical marketing support for the development and design in of Commercial Products, including high voltage, low voltage, ethernet, rugged and industrial products as well as aid in development of custom solutions
- Prepare and participate in technical presentations
- Develop customer-facing material that is application specific
- Provide customer support for all technical inquiries; provide product solutions to address customer concerns
- Help devise strategies to differentiate our products and solutions from our competitors
- Meet and exceed strategic objectives
- Some travel will be required, up to 30% domestically, international travel as needed
Education/ Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline or other technical equivalent
- Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science Preferred
- 2 years’ experience in Design or Applications Engineering of electrical hardware components/ interconnect solutions industry
- Experience providing product marketing and technical support to produce design wins
Skills:
- Proficient in communicating across organizational hierarchies
- High level of customer service, ability to build rapport with customers
- Proficient use of modeling tools such as Creo or SolidWorks
- Strong organizational and presentation skills
- Microsoft Office 365
