Upstate NY is your answer to “What’s Next?” Explore the possibilities for a career that suits your lifestyle.
Upstate NY is your answer to “What’s Next?” Explore the possibilities for a career that suits your lifestyle.
Wolfspeed
Summary:
The Senior Field Applications Engineer, Power (m/f/d) provides key technical support to our customers in Industrial and Automotive market. Interacting face-to-face with customers and distributor partners, he / she is responsible of Design-Win activities, identifying technical roadblocks and developing a strategy to address them. It is essential working in continuous collaboration with EMEA Sales team and Headquarter Product Line Marketing to accomplish assigned tasks.
We are looking for a talented and highly motivated Senior Field Applications Engineer, Power (m/f/d) with good understanding of the commercial dynamics.
Job Responsibilities:
Work with Sales Account Managers to aggressively win designs and grow revenue;
Qualify opportunity and determine if there is a fit for SiC power device;
Pre-sales support to convince customer of SiC system benefits and selling SiC’s value;
Support the customer through the design cycle from sample, prototype, pilot, pre-production, to production with hardware debug, system level knowledge;
Work with customer on Quality claims and determine root cause of field/application failures;
Leveraging his/her technical knowledge is capable to support field requests with minimal factory support;
Manage and train distribution FAEs;
Communicate effectively with factory for technical requests;
Provide customer feedback, application trends to Marketing for new product development.
Leveraging our Munich Lab to determine best practice of use of SiC components and generate new knowledge;
Requirements:
MSc. in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or similar with 3-5 year experience in one of the following roles: power semiconductor FAE, application engineer or R&D in power electronics in the power application above 1kW;
Strong technical communication skills; ability to communicate with customers development/application engineers on system level & component level;
Good understand of different topologies, hard as well as soft switching topologies;
Comfortable of work and operate with high voltage semiconductors;
Experiences with circuits design, component selection, loss calculation, layout, magnetic design, from automotive background is a plus;
Fundamental knowledge of different semiconductors devices; Diodes, BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, IGBTs etc;
Analytic and a team player;
Familiar with industrial standards and compliances; JEDEC, AEC-Q, UL, EMI/EMC etc;
Ability to travel frequently to customers to give onsite support;
Daily use of MS office software package and good knowledge of LT-spice and/or PLECS;
Fluent communication skills in English and German language;
Capable to achieve goals with minimal supervise with strong proactivity.
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