Avnet is looking for a Field Application Engineer to provide technical sales support for AMD Xilinx products, acting as a lead for hardware and software aspects of key customer systems and driving design win strategies.
Requirements
- Experience with and understanding at systems level, FPGA and ASIC design tools. Experience with Vivado/Vitis, ISE or Quartus required (ModelSim is a plus)
- Experience in designing with AMD Xilinx FPGA’s & SoCs (Versal Adaptive SOCs, Virtex, Kintex, Artix & Spartan Class FPGA’s, RFSoC, Zynq UltraScale+, & Zynq-7000)
- Knowledge of embedded system design tools such as AMD Xilinx’s Vivado & Vitis tools, IP Integrator, or Intel Altera Quartus, and Eclipse based software development environment.
- Knowledge of board design requirements for FPGA’s & SoC’s including power distribution & dissipation, high speed interface design, and debug.
- Design experience using high performance external memory interface controllers and protocols
- Design experience using FPGA based high-speed serial transceivers
- Embedded processing knowledge - Familiar with x86 and ARM architectures, performance metrics, OS (especially Linux), Yocto, BSP, drivers, and debugging tools
Responsibilities
- Drive and manage Xilinx technical related initiatives & activities for key customers in alignment with the AMD Xilinx dedicated Technical Sales Engineer (TSE)
- Provide technical leadership and guidance that focuses on AMD Xilinx design win strategies for customer opportunities
- Drive the technical part of strategy proposals for key customer programs
- Leverages understanding of known challenges to advise customer designers on the optimum use of Xilinx IP, software tools and hardware devices
- Manage technical support issues within customer base and collaborate/bring in AMD Xilinx technical specialists when required to help solve real time problems (e.g. software tool & IP issues, Design Closure, RTL and simulation assistance, system bring up and debug)
- Collaborate with field and AMD Xilinx factory resources to develop and deliver technical proposals to customer project managers, engineering managers, system architects and design engineers that align with customers’ needs
- Lead with technical solution creation to show our value proposition (e.g.: hardware, software demos, example designs)
Other
- Develop relationships with and become trusted advisor to (system) engineers & architects in your assigned key accounts
- Ability to identify a customer’s key care-abouts and thus contribute to overall sales strategy and success
- Knowledge of customers' end products including their specific market requirements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong presentations skills, and the ability to work with multiple groups
