Field Application Engineer

Arrow Electronics is a company that values collaboration and continuous improvement, seeking individuals who share their passion for success. As a Field Application Engineer, you will engage with clients to create technical solutions and drive demand creation while providing advanced technical support and consulting.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for utilizing an advanced understanding of the customer needs and technical leadership expertise to champion return on engineering investment
• Participate as technical lead on large, complex customer engagements involving broad, system solutions and identify and drive demand creation by maximizing Arrow content on designs
• Partner with the sales team across pre-and post-sales activities, providing advanced technical support and consulting to promote demand creation
• Champion return on engineering investment, design win priorities, initiatives, and promotions by obtaining buy-in and support from sales
• Provide technical leadership to the branch, customers, and suppliers shaping strategy and guiding technical direction/priorities
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of supplier technologies and how those technologies relate to market needs, including vertical segmentation
• Position Arrow’s differential value proposition, supplier technologies, as well as, competitor technologies
• Possess a complete knowledge of products and full knowledge of entire scope of assigned lines
• Has sound product knowledge of Arrow's line card
• Attend supplier trainings
• Manage supplier and customer expectations by building and developing relationships with senior level decision makers, keeping stakeholders up-to-date on activities, plans, and progressing towards initiatives
• Deepen and broaden connections with key decision makers within suppliers and customers
• Attend and actively participate in strategic branch meetings and QBR
• Use ROI concepts for making strategic business plans and decisions
• Develop and drive strategic technical plans by supplier line or customer solutions
• Successfully create, organize and conduct engineering customer events or conference or engineering training
• Support design services initiatives

Requirements:

• BSEE or Equivalent and 5+ years of related work experience
• Hardware/System Design experience and/or electromechanical experience
• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions
• Works independently; receives minimal guidance
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products/services or processes
• Often leads the work of project teams; may formally train junior staff
• Embedded Development experience
• RTOS experience
• FPGA or other specialized experience
• Sales or customer facing experience