FAST Development Program Field Applications Engineer

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Upon successful completion of this track in the FAST development program, rotators are welcomed as Field Application Engineer on TI's worldwide Sales & Applications team.

As a Field Application Engineer, your key responsibilities will be:

Technical Support & Design-In:

• Assist customers in selecting the right solution (MCU, processor, or wireless MCU) for their applications. 
• Solve design challenges with the TI portfolio to become a trusted advisor for your customers.
• Provide hands-on support for hardware and software integration, including debugging and optimization

Pre-Sales Activities:

• Build up specific knowledge in your customers applications and present technical solutions.
• Identify opportunities and deliver technical presentations, demos and workshops to customers and partners.
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to advise customers effectively. Leverage market knowledge and date insights to discover more opportunities

Post- Sales Support:

• Troubleshoot customer issues and provide timely resolutions.
• Guide customers through firmware development, RTOS integration and connectivity stacks

Feedback Loop: 

• Gather customer feedback and communicate requirements to product management and R&D teams.

Your start as a Field Applications Engineer (FAE) will be through our FAST development program:

• The 12-month FAST Development Program prepares future Field Applications Engineers (FAEs) for their role as technical experts in the Texas Instruments product portfolio. The goal of the program is to provide hands-on experience in the role of an FAE while providing training and mentoring programs. During the program, you will have access to various departments and gain insight into long-term development opportunities at TI. The trainee program includes four rotations*:

Rotation 1: Stay in a local sales office (Field Sales Office (FSO)), 5 months - France:

The FSO rotation is all about learning how to interact with customers and how to solve technical challenges at the customers site. The focus here is on providing technical advice to the customer at system level in order to implement the customer's projects in the best possible way. in addition to other core components, this rotation focuses on analyzing technical alternatives and learning how to select the right technical components while taking design and cost challenges into account. This rotation will preferably take place in your future sales office.

Rotation 2: Stay in the mass market team, 3 months - France:

The rotation in the Mass-Market Team teaches you how to use data-driven solutions and automation in a targeted manner to optimize sales. You will learn how to use TI's resources efficiently and how to scale measures successfully. Through practical exercises, you will develop hybrid sales techniques and improve digital customer relationships. You will learn to set priorities and act quickly - because "done is better than perfect". You will also develop your decision-making skills in uncertain situations and learn how to make the best possible use of personal customer contacts. Finally, you will strengthen your independence and gain confidence in direct communication with customers.

Rotation 3: Stay in the Systems Engineering & Marketing (SEM) team, 3 months:

The rotation SEM allows FAE-to-be hands-on experience to understand the compatibility of TI's product portfolio and learn how our customers can get system-level solutions for their product designs. The rotation will focus on product & PCB layouts, an insight into the production process at Texas Instruments as well as circuit development and testing & validation of designs, among other core areas. This rotation usually takes place at our EMEA headquarters in Freising, Germany.

Rotation 4: Headquarters Experience, 3 weeks - Dallas (USA):

The rotation in Dallas brings you closer to TI and our headquarters. The focus here is on building a multi-level network with key stakeholders in support functions, the Business Unit (BU) and Systems Engineering. Experience the impressive Dallas campus and learn how to utilize all TI resources.

Texas Instruments will not sponsor job applications for visas or work authorization for this position.

Why TI?

• Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
• We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
• Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at 

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.

TI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.

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