FAE - MCU-Shanghai at Texas Instruments in Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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The Field Applications Engineer Microcontrollers (FAEM) is responsible for partnering with Sales and providing MCU related technical expertise throughout the sales cycle. The FAEM proactively identifies current products and/or creative solutions to solve existing customer projects and create new functionality/opportunities. In this role, the FAEM also uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to gain credibility and develop relationships with customers.

Responsibilities include:

• Win new customer design commitments
• Take customers' designs to revenue by providing prompt and thorough technical support for on-going design activity
• Understand customer MCU requirements and propose solutions with TI, Customer, or third party software
• Recommend and implement system processor solutions to customers in a consultative role
• Work closely with the sales team and product group to capture new processor business and successfully take it to revenue
• Constantly apply lessons learned from customer engagements to refine our competitive understanding
• Use customer and competitive knowledge to tailor feedback to the product group for new product development
• Have a grasp of the specific business value ($) that new product enhancements will produce
• Constantly making technical contributions back to TI's technical community through informal (flex teams, technical forums) and formal (application notes, Tech Day presentations) channels
• Develop design winning embedded processor customer proposals by recommending optimal solutions to customers; factoring in all technical, cost, time to market and business issues
• Provide companion system s/w architecture solutions to customers factoring in technical feasibility, integration complexity and related business issues (licensing, intellectual property, costs)
• Have a system level architecture understanding of complex embedded systems: LPW, motor control, audio/video, telecom, security
• Comprehend and debug complex systems issues (hardware interaction with software and external components)
• Debug other engineers' designs: hardware and software using TI and industry development tools and test equipment

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

• Minimum education (i.e., bachelor's degree in electrical engineering)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronics Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical and Computer
• Engineering or related field
• Fluent in English, both written and oral communication skills
• Basic understanding of schematics, layouts for MCU and peripheral components
• Knowledge and understanding of MCU internal resources (examples include op-amps, data converters, clock, PWM, comparators, communication interface etc.)
• Experience with lab equipment, like oscilloscopes, AWG, multimeter, along with soldering and debugging skills
• Experience with MCU related applications such as motor driver, power electronics, digital power
• Experience with IDE such as CCS or others.
• Preferred qualifications:
• Programming skills in C/C++ (LabView recommended)
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills and logics
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Ability to build lasting, influential relationships, both inside and outside the organization
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
• Ability to take initiative and drive for results
• Ability to influence decisions through a sense of urgency and competitive drive
• Better to have power electronics related experience

About the Team

TI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.

About the Company

Why TI?

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About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment.

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