Manager , Field Applications Engineer

Overview

Lead a team of FPGA Field Applications Engineers to drive demand creation and technical support for Arrow's PLD silicon, tools and IP products.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of FPGA FAEs to drive demand creation activities and achieve KPIs.
• Build relationships with key decision makers at customers.
• Familiarize with the latest FPGA and acceleration technologies, including AI/ML, through supplier training and conference calls.
• Provide technical support and guidance to customers on FPGA solutions, including troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Be the first point of contact for customers on PLD silicon, tool and IP technical support, including onsite support.
• Maximize Arrow content on customer designs and influence designs using solution selling.
• Leverage Arrow's engineering and design services resources to facilitate customer solutions.
• Work with Engineering and Marketing teams on customer issues and product enhancements.
• Collaborate with field and factory resources to develop and deliver technical proposals to customer project managers, engineering managers, system architects and design engineers.
• Attend and actively participate in strategic branch meetings and QBRs.
• Develop and drive strategic technical plans by supplier line or customer solution.
• Partner with the sales team across pre- and post-sales activities, including managing the opportunity funnel from initial concept to mass production.
• Provide technical calibrations and research with sales, other Arrow departments and suppliers in support of customer designs.
• Provide regular feedback to supplier field sales and factory experts on customer needs and alignment with corporate goals.
• Handle line-down technical crises and complex debugging sessions at customer sites.
• Present technical roadmaps to CTOs and lead engineers.

What you'll need

• BE/BTech/ME/MSc in Electronics and Telecommunications or equivalent.
• Minimum 10+ years of FPGA design experience.
• Experience leading a team of FAEs or design engineers.
• Willingness to travel with FAEs and hand-hold customers on resolving technical issues.
• Embedded design experience on SoC-based FPGAs from Xilinx/Altera, with working experience on bare metal and operating systems.
• Working experience on DSP-based designs using Xilinx SYSGEN or Altera DSP Builder.
• Hands-on experience with high-speed IO designs using transceivers and protocols such as PCIe, SATA and Ethernet.
• Comfortable presenting technical roadmaps to CTOs and lead engineers.
• Ability to handle line-down technical crises or complex debugging sessions at a customer site.

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI-based design flow on FPGA.
• Working exposure to transceivers at 58 Gbps (NRZ) and 116 Gbps (PAM4).
• Experience with high-speed ADC/DAC interfaces using JESD204B/C and FPGAs with built-in ADC/DAC such as Xilinx RFSoC or Altera RF FPGAs.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Onsite technical support and customer travel required.