Senior Field Applications Engineer – FAE

🕒 August 28

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $145k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 Field Service Engineer

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Microchip Technology Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1989

🚘 Automotive

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $937k Post-IPO Equity on 2016-07

Automotive • Defense • Manufacturing

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog, and Flash-IP solutions. The company specializes in developing a wide range of semiconductor products to meet the growing needs of various industries while ensuring reliability and efficiency in electronic applications. With a commitment to innovation, Microchip Technology empowers engineers to create advanced embedded control systems.

📋 Description

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to strategic customers, influencing system architecture, technology selection, and product integration decisions. • Partner with sales teams to identify customer needs, shape technical strategy, and drive design-in and design-win opportunities. • Support customers throughout the product lifecycle, from early architecture discussions and proof of concept through production launch and post-sales support. • Conduct technical presentations, product demonstrations, and training sessions for customers and partners. • Analyze customer requirements and recommend optimal product usage, system architecture, software, firmware, interface, logic, IP integration, and implementation strategies. • Support customer discussions involving high-speed interface selection, SoC integration, IP blocks, FPGA or programmable logic development, and system-level trade-offs. • Provide customer and market feedback to engineering, product management, and R&D teams to help influence product roadmaps and future solution development. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, escalating to engineering teams as needed. • Build trusted relationships with technical stakeholders, engineering leaders, and decision-makers at customer sites. • Stay current with emerging technologies, competitive products, industry standards, and market trends relevant to customer designs. • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior FAEs and other team members.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. • 7+ years of relevant design or applications experience in embedded systems, hardware, software, firmware, networking, Ethernet, FPGA, security, SoCs, or related semiconductor technologies. • Solid understanding of high-speed digital technologies and interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, high-speed SerDes, SoC architectures, or related board- and system-level design considerations. • Ability to understand customer requirements involving processor, memory, connectivity, acceleration, and peripheral integration within complex embedded or SoC-based systems. • Strong track record of taking multiple hardware, firmware, software, or embedded systems designs from concept through production. • Experience working directly with customers, suppliers, sales teams, or cross-functional stakeholders to explain technology, solve technical problems, or influence design decisions. • Comfortable presenting technical concepts, leading architecture discussions, and translating customer requirements into practical engineering solutions. • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills. • Strong communication and presentation abilities, with experience engaging both technical and non-technical audiences. • Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment. • Willingness to travel to customer sites as required. • Bilingual proficiency in English and French.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base pay • Restricted stock units • Quarterly bonus payments • Health benefits beginning day one • Retirement savings plans • Industry leading IESPP program with a 6-month look back feature • Employee development and Leadership Passage Programs • Home Office work arrangement