Analog Field Applications Engineer(Power)

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The Analog Field Applications Engineer (AFAE) is responsible for partnering with Sales and providing Analog related technical expertise throughout the sales cycle. The AFAE proactively identifies current products and/or creative solutions to solve existing customer projects and create new functionality/opportunities. In this role, the AFAE uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to gain credibility and develop relationships with customers.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Help TI secure customer commitments and win business by working on-site with customers in support of their engineering teams developing applications
• Recommend and implement system analog solutions to customers in a consultative role have strong embedded software development skills
• Solve customer technical challenges from system perspectives
• Build up customer relationship and maximize TI product contents in customer's applications
• Work together with sales force in driving revenue growth
• Take customer designs to revenue by providing prompt and thorough support for on-going design activity
• Understand the competitor landscape; constantly applying lessons from customer engagement to refine this competitor understanding
• Use competitor knowledge to tailor feedback to the product group for new product/feature development
• Understand the specific business benefits that such feature/product enhancements will produce
• Identify product gap in the marketplace and provide new product opportunity to headquarter business unit
• Present at TI technical conferences and facilitate product specific customer trainings (seminars/workshops)

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in EE/Comp Eng, or comparable
• At least 2 years of experience in Analog disciplines applicable to our customer's end equipment spaces such as BMS, Automotive, AC to DC/ DC to DC power designs
• Experience with design, analysis, and debug of related circuits or sub-systems

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of power electronics principles, including topologies like AC/DC, DC/DC and DC/AC converters. 
• Proficiency in the design and analysis of power supply systems, including high-frequency magnetic components and EMI/EMC compliance
• Familiarity with power semiconductor devices such as MOSFETs. IGBTs, and GaN/SiC technology
• Experience with simulation tools like SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink or PLECS. 
• Experience with layout placement, layout review and familiarity w/ layout tools such as Altium Designer or Candance Allegro 
• Ability to collaborate effectively with customers to solve their complete analog system requirements utilizing TI components
• Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive customer activity
• Ability to work with multiple sales resources and field and factory-based technical resources to develop a winning solution for the customer
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills, with ability to effectively relate materials to customers
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Ability to work effectively in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Ability to efficiently context-switch between multiple concurrent tasks
• Ability to advocate for customer needs (with an understanding of "why") back into the TI product groups