Applications Engineer - Marketing

Applications Engineer, Data Center Marketing – Socionext America – Milpitas, CA

Description

Socionext America Inc. (SNA)

Socionext Inc., world’s second largest fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops and delivers leading edge System-on-Chip cusom silicon solutions to global customers. The company is focused on datacenter compute server, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, automotive and industrial automation market segments that drive today’s leading-edge services and applications. Socionext combines world-class expertise, deep enterprise class product development experience, and an extensive IP portfolio to provide differentiating solutions. Socionext Inc. is headquartered in Shin-Yokohama, and has offices in Japan, United States, Europe and Asia.

We are seeking a Marketing Manager for our Data Center business with a background as an Applications Engineer.

The primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Create Data Center market technologies inflexion insights
• Develop Market Requirements Document (MRD) by engaging with market leading customers and capturing technology needs, systems roadmaps
• Study emerging market and industry technology trends
• Develop datacenter business opportunities and win strategies
• Advocate IP offerings roadmap to customers and collect feedback
• Working closely with management to drive all phases of customer design wins and execution

Requirements for this position:

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE, Masters preferred
• 5 years of successful experience in marketing and closing business
• 8 years of experience with data center networking, storage and server products (knowledge of data center interconnects)
• Must have experience in networking and storage industry. In depth knowledge of Storage applications is required. Familiarity with solid state storage is a plus.
• Requires an excellent understanding of ASIC design and manufacturing flows, including a good grasp of the competitive landscape
• Knowledge required – ASIC Marketing, CNICs/HBAs, PCIe, NVMe, Flash, SSD, SATA, SAS, iSCSI
• Ability to guide products through development, including the definition and trade off analysis of architectures and new features for the components required for Data Center ASIC
• Ability to lead with varied goals and objectives to achieve business unit’s direction and purpose
• Ability to use financial tools such as ROI and NPV analysis to build business cases.
• Teamwork, dedication, strong communications and interpersonal skills
• Some travel ~10%