Field Applications Program, Digital
Texas Instruments
Field Applications Program - Digital
About the Role
This 12-month Field Applications Engineer track aims to establish rising Field Applications Engineers (FAEs) as technical experts with customer engineers and internal teams. The track includes 3 rotations:
- Rotation 1, Field Sales Office (FSO):
- Learn to work directly with customers to solve technical challenges.
- Maximize TI's revenue by providing customers with system-level solutions.
- Analyze technical trade-offs.
- Understand component selection.
- Solve design and cost challenges.
- Rotation 2, Mass Market (MM):
- Train FAEs on how to scale actions across multiple customers within a given sector or EE.
- Participate in innovative projects to create new and efficient sales processes.
- Leverage TI’s resources and automation.
- Practice scalable selling techniques.
- Decision making in imperfect circumstances.
- Direct customer interactions.
- Rotation 3, Business Unit/Systems Engineering & Marketing (BU/SEM):
- Gain hands-on experience understanding how TI components fit together for system-level solutions.
- Train on business acumen, technical capabilities, and processes for new product definition and introduction.
- Technical product selection.
- Schematic/layout capture.
- PCB layouts.
- Fabrication processes.
- Board bring up and validation.
Upon successful completion of the track, participants become FAEs on TI's Worldwide Sales & Applications team.
Key Responsibilities
As a Field Applications Engineer, your responsibilities include:
- Using various sales tools and relationships with design engineering to identify potential projects.
- Providing customers with proactive proposals for complete, system-level solutions that maximize TI content.
- Using broad technical expertise to influence customers' part selection process while favorably positioning TI versus competition.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
- Cumulative 3.0/4.0 GPA or higher.
- Experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes.
- Soldering and debugging skills.
- Programming skills in C/C++ (LabView recommended).
- Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively.
- Strong time management skills.
- Ability to build lasting, influential relationships.
- 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.
Pay Range
$90,000 - $125,000