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Job Number: 2172320

Job Title: Sr. FAE
Location: Santa Clara
Compensation: 104-156k base, 30% commission

Our client is seeking an experienced, self-motivated, and results-driven Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to hunt for and secure new business opportunities while building personal and trusting relationships with assigned customers and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Develop deep understanding of customers' technical requirements, as well as translate system architecture requirements from customer specifications
  • Coordinate and drive marketing/engineering teams to create supporting documents, examples, and benchmarks as proof-points to help secure design wins
  • Understand customer requirements and help define new features and evolve product roadmap with marketing teams
  • Responsible for pre and post sales on-site technical support, provide optimized networking solutions for customers
  • Engage with our industry partners to develop complete solutions
  • Develop and establish strong cooperative relationships with the customers' engineering organization, as well as drive timely and effective resolution of customer issues

Qualifications

  • A minimum of 5 years of FAE experience in this industry
  • Proven track record of winning designs and growing revenue
  • Deep technical understanding of HW and SW development
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills and demonstrated success in building strong technical relationships (internal: Sales, Marketing, Engineering and external: Channel Partners)
  • Proven track record of being self-motivated to take initiative and continuously learn
  • Team player that works well with cross functional team
  • BSEE or equivalent technical/industry knowledge

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