Field Applications Engineer (Fae ) - San Francisco Bay Area

Job Description
This engineer at first will work under a senior level Field Applications Engineer to assist with the support and development of new customer designs, perform technical reviews, provide analysis and troubleshooting efforts.
Efforts will be focused on understanding and demonstrating Renesas’ value proposition and solving technical concerns to ensure that the customer uses Renesas products.
As a Field-Based Applications Engineer, you will be the primary technical resource for pre-sales and post-sales support in your region for selected customer base with early on guidance from senior level Field Applications Engineer.
Your main responsibility is securing design wins across a wide range of Networking/Infrastructure and Cloud based customers primarily focusing on the Renesas Analog and Timing product portfolio.
You will meet with customers and use your analog and timing expertise to cultivate design opportunities, position Renesas products, demonstrate technology, address customer obstacles and advance opportunities to design wins.
You will provide real-time support in both reactive and proactive modes for key customers and the Renesas Sales team.
You are highly driven, customer-focused, hold excellent problem solving and communication skills, and have ability to handle several complex issues in parallel.
You will regularly support customers on-site in a pre-sales and post-sales technical role as they work through system design and post related board bring-up/debug issues.
Your specific responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
Must be able to effectively troubleshoot customer issues related to Renesas Analog and Timing products, assist with schematic reviews, lead technical discussions and to present technical features and benefits of Renesas products.
Achieve assigned design win and revenue goals for Renesas products.
Provide guidance on the value and strategic fit of the assigned product family and then work with the account teams to establish the proper sales goals and strategy.
Establish dialogue with marketing and management teams of the assigned product lines, updating them on progress of the agreed to objectives and market dynamics as well as competitive inputs.
Ability to demo Renesas evaluation boards and SW GUI’s to customer and assist with related questions.
Able to conduct schematic/layout design review.
Understands competitive offering and uses detailed product understanding to overcome customer obstacles.
Leads the effort for technical discovery (uncovering) on key customer designs. Must establish a close relationship with customer including HW designers, component engineers.