We are seeking aPrincipal-level Field Applications Engineerwith a rare combination ofdeep embedded design expertise and extensive customer-facing experience. This role is ideal for someone who has spent10+ years working directly with customersin a technical capacity94whether insales engineering, field applications engineering, customer solutions, or technical consulting94and who thrives on owning an embedded solutionfrom first customer conversation through production and long-term support.

This isnota pure development role andnota pure sales role. You will act as atechnical lead, architect, and trusted advisor, helping customers define requirements, win internal buy-in, and successfully deliver production-grade embedded software.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Key Responsibilities

Customer Engagement & Design Wins

• Act as aprimary technical interface to customers, owning relationships from initial engagement through product launch
• Proactively identify new opportunitiesfor design wins by understanding customer roadmaps, pain points, and business drivers
• Translate customer requirements intocomplete embedded system architectures
• Present and iterate on technical solutions with customer engineering and management teams
• Partner closely with sales todrive design wins to revenue, while independently leading the technical strategy

Embedded System Architecture & Design

• Architectend
  9-to
  9 embedded solutions, including hardware, firmware, and supporting tools
• Designproduction-level hardware(schematic design, component selection, design for manufacturability)
• Developproduction-level embedded firmwareapplications in C/C++ for microcontroller-based systems
• Implement RTOS-based designs, bootloaders, firmware update mechanisms, and peripheral drivers
• Adapt and extend reference designs to meet customer-specific requirements

Implementation, Debug & Support

Own the technical success of customer projects through:

• System bring-up and debugging
• Root-cause analysis of hardware and firmware issues
• Bug fixes and feature enhancements throughout the product lifecycle

Support customers post-design-win with:

• Production readiness
• Sustaining engineering
• Feature expansion and roadmap alignment

Customer-Facing Experience (Critical)

10+ years in a customer-facing technical role, such as:

• Field Applications Engineer
• Sales Engineer
• Customer Solutions Engineer
• Embedded Systems Consultant

Proven ability to:

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
• Build credibility and trust with customer engineering teams
• Balance multiple customer engagements simultaneously

Embedded Technical Expertise

0+ years of hands-on embedded system design experience

• Strong experience with:
  • Embedded C/C++
  • Microcontrollers and system architecture
  • RTOS-based firmware development
  • Serial interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, USB etc.)
  • Firmware update and bootloader design
  • Git-based workflows

• Hardware design experience including:
  • Schematic capture
  • Component selection
  • Board bring-up and debugging

• Proficiency with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers)

Soft Skills & Mindset

• Comfortable operating inambiguityand defining solutions from incomplete requirements
• Strong sense ofownership and accountability
• Self-directed, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal supervision
• Enjoys bothtechnical depth and customer interaction
• Able to prioritize across multiple opportunities while maintaining technical excellence
• Able to act as a team leader with help drive large designs from

Nice-to-Have (Differentiators)

• CI/CD for embedded firmware
• Experience with embedded Linux
• Secure boot and secure firmware update
• Networking (wired or wireless)
• Python for automation or tooling
• Experience supporting products through volume production

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