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

Primary responsibilities include:

Strategic Customer Engagement

• Lead technical relationships with major mobile OEMs and ODMs
• Influence customer platform architecture and drive long-term design-win strategies
• Serve as the trusted technical advisor for battery management and power system solutions
• Identify future customer requirements and translate them into product roadmap recommendations

Technical Leadership

• Provide expert-level support for Battery Charger, Fuel Gauge, Battery Protection, and PMIC products.
• Lead complex system-level debugging involving hardware, firmware, and battery interactions.
• Support power architecture optimization for smartphones, tablets, wearables, and other portable devices.
• Perform root cause analysis for critical field issues.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Application Engineering, Systems Engineering and Marketing, Quality teams.
• Drive issue resolution across global organizations under aggressive customer schedules.
• Mentor junior FAEs and provide technical leadership within the regional applications team.

Business Impact

• Support annual revenue growth through successful design-in and design-win activities.
• Manage multiple strategic customer projects simultaneously.
• Deliver executive-level technical presentations to customer engineering and management teams.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Semiconductor FAE, Applications Engineering, or Hardware System Design.
• Experience supporting top-tier global mobile OEMs.
• Deep understanding of smartphone power tree architecture.
• Experience supporting smartphone or portable electronics customers.
• Strong expertise in: 
  • Lithium-ion battery systems and smartphone battery management architectures (BMS)
  • Fuel Gauge technologies and algorithms, including SOC/SOH estimation, battery profiling, and model-based gauging methods
  • Battery characterization, profiling, calibration, and system validation for portable applications
  • Battery charging, protection, safety, and authentication architectures
  • PMIC and analog power management solutions for smartphones, tablets, and wearables
  • Understanding for MCU-based embedded systems, battery-related system debugging
  • Field application support and root-cause analysis for Fuel Gauge and battery system issues.
  • Strong understanding of smartphone battery industry trends, customer requirements, and next-generation battery technologies 
• Proven track record of driving strategic design wins.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in EE/Comp Eng, or comparable
• Minimum XX years of experience in Analog disciplines applicable to our customer's end equipment spaces such as sensors, signal conditioning, data acquisition, power design, clocking and timing, or data communications
• Experience with design, analysis, and debug of related circuits or sub-systems
• Ability to run simulations, and create/ review schematics and board layout
• Ability to help customers debug board level issues

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to collaborate effectively with customers to solve their complete analog system requirements utilizing TI components
• Strong communication skills and the ability to proactively drive customer activity
• Ability to work with multiple sales resources and field and factory-based technical resources to develop a winning solution for the customer
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills, with ability to effectively relate materials to customers
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Ability to work effectively in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Ability to efficiently context-switch between multiple concurrent tasks
• Ability to advocate for customer needs (with an understanding of "why") back into the TI product groups