What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Application Engineer position at Amphenol Communications Solutions?
The Commercial Group and High-Speed Group at Amphenol is currently seeking a Field Applications Engineer to support large Enterprise and Consumer Company.
Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. The Company designs, manufactures and markets electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, coaxial and flat-ribbon cable, and interconnect systems. The primary end markets for the Company's products are communications and information processing. Including cable television, cellular telephone and data communication, storage, and information processing systems; aerospace and military electronics; and automotive, rail and other transportation and industrial applications.
Location: Houston, TX (preferred). Austin, TX may be considered; however, this option requires travel to Houston once per week.
Responsibilities:
We value our relationships with these companies, and we depend on our Sales and Field Applications Engineering Teams to foster these ongoing business partnerships.
The FAE engineering team interfaces with customers, internal product development, product marketing, and the extended sales team to provide world-class interconnect solutions to our customers.
- Engineering resource on the sales team to lead technical aspects of the sales cycle; discovery, design, prototyping, and production
- Providing technical marketing support for the development and design in of Products, including internal/external power, memory, storage, and internal IO
- Prepare and participate in delivering technical presentations to the customer
- Develop customer-facing material that is application specific
- Provide customer support for all technical inquiries; provide product solutions to address customer concerns
- Help devise strategies to differentiate our products and solutions from our competitors
- Meet and exceed strategic objectives
- Some travel will be required to other customer or Amphenol locations in the US or Taiwan.
Education/ Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline or other technical equivalent
- Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Preferred
- 2 years’ experience in Design or Applications Engineering of electrical hardware components/ interconnect solutions industry
- Experience providing product marketing and technical support to produce design wins
Skills:
- Proficient in communicating across organizational hierarchies
- High level of customer service, ability to build rapport with customers
- Proficient use of modeling tools such as Creo or Solid Works.
- Strong organizational and presentation skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong Program/Project Management
