Altera
Field Applications Engineer (FAE)
Maryland, United States (Remote) · Mid
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$420 more — $151,320 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $151,320 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Electrical Engineers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- For decades, Altera has been at the forefront of programmable logic technology.
- Join us in our journey to becoming the #1 FPGA company!
- As a Field Applications Engineer (FAE), your key responsibilities will be:
Responsibilities
- Relationship Building: Cultivate strong relationships with customer engineering teams to identify, develop, and expand new opportunities within assigned accounts.
- Product Expertise: Possess deep knowledge of the FPGA product portfolio to drive sales in established product lines and seed growth in emerging markets.
- Customer Issue Resolution: Build strong relationships with customer teams to facilitate rapid resolution of technical issues and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
Requirements
- Experience with FPGA development tools (e.g., include Quartus, Vivado, etc.)
- Experience with VHDL or Verilog or System Verilog or OpenCL or high-level synthesis tools (HLS)
- BSEE or related electrical/electronic degree
- Post Bachelor's degree
- Experience in technical sales, applications, technical marketing, technical product marketing
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- We are seeking an experienced hardware engineer (e.g. 3+ years) with experience in one or more of the following:
- Experience in FPGA, ASIC, and/or digital design
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- Experience additional industry experience (examples include embedded SoC design, ASIC, ASSP, CPU, microcontrollers, microprocessor architecture, ARM based processor solutions, board level design, DSP, signal integrity, etc.)
- Shift 1 (United States of America)
- Primary Location:
- Maryland, United States (Remote)
- Additional Locations:
Compensation
- The compensation below is reflective of a sales role that includes a salary + incentive.
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor within the US market.
- Actual compensation may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
Company info
- Our commitment to innovation has empowered countless customers to create groundbreaking solutions that have transformed industries.
- For decades, Altera has been at the forefront of programmable logic technology. Our commitment to innovation has empowered countless customers to create groundbreaking solutions that have transformed industries.
- Technical Assistance: Assist customers with: architecture definition, solution evaluation, design and implementation of product requirements using FPGAs, IP, and development tools.
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