Application Specialist

About the role

The objective of the role is to demonstrate the highest technical aptitude and professional engineering skills while contributing to key accounts and company strategy. The role requires strong interpersonal and relationship development skills, customer-facing experience, business acumen, and personal drive.

Position Overview

The best NI Field Applications Engineers effectively balance their time between face-to-face interactions with target customers, technical activities, and providing insight and feedback as the voice of the customer. They serve as highly trusted technical consultants across multiple industries, influencing the technical direction of target accounts to ensure mutual customer and long-term NI success.

Responsibilities

• Building key technical relationships at top accounts by demonstrating great technical credibility that increases customer technical confidence in NI
• Understanding and assisting in creation of customer technical requirements
• Providing recommendations on software and hardware architectures while helping customers understand the test system development process to ensure success
• Collaborating with NI Account Managers as part of an account team to lead development and execution of the account technical strategy which provides better insight to the overall account strategy and opportunity pipeline
• Cooking with internal stakeholders to execute on account technical initiatives and provide feedback to increase account success
• Leveraging industry, application area, and account knowledge to uncover and influence customer future technical needs and challenges thereby generating further technical demand for NI products, services, and support

Qualifications

• BS degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics)
• 5 years of Test and Measurement industry experience
• 3 years of software programming experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Willing and able to travel – Regionally and to Austin, TX up to 25% of time
• 5 years of NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand development experience, including developer certifications
• 5 years of experience developing and supporting Automated Measurement Systems
• 5 years of experience in RF Fundamentals and Measurements
• Experience with NI PXI and Modular Instruments including RF, mixed signal and digital technologies
• Experience with SDR applications
• 2 years of FPGA and fixed-point algorithm programming experience
• 2 years in a customer-facing role
• Able to integrate business, operational, and interpersonal considerations into technical engagements

Benefits

This position is compensated by 80% base salary, and 20% variable pay based on achievement of key sales objectives and account revenue.

Pay

$133,000 - $248,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

Schedule

Not specified