Avnet Looking for Applications Support Engineer at Phoenix, AZ  Full Time

Job Summary:

Identifies opportunities for business expansion in support of the customer sales strategy for the company’s supplier offerings. Develops and maintains the business relationship by providing solutions for the company and its defined supplier(s) in a product line, to achieve the identified strategy and business financial objectives.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Engage with key customers of Advanced Applications Group / 5G to accelerate their time-to-production with Avnet/AMD-Xilinx RFSoC development kits and attached mmWave RF solutions
• Identify product enhancements to meet customer requirements according to state-of-the-art trends in focus technology areas of Advanced Applications Group / 5G
• Interface with the company’s supplier business units leads to identify technology and product opportunities where the company and supplier can collaborate on solutions development offerings.
• Develop market requirements, design specification, marketing plan, and project plans for engineering development efforts of given solution.
• Manage project budget, schedule, and development to ensure successful execution of project plan.
• Provide design and engineering expertise to various development efforts within the group.
• Develop, writes, and manage technical content creation for marketing, web, FAE, sales and customer training.
• Interface with various global resources including marketing, web, FAEs, sales, supplier managers, technical management, and sales management, to support deployment of program globally.
• Provide strategic recommendations to Avnet management on technology, applications, and solutions that will differentiate Avnet and grow Avnet revenue and profitability.
• Identifies and creates opportunity demand for identified products, coordinating the supporting seminars, training and resource awareness that drives growth plan success for the company and it’s defined supplier(s).
• Maintains and drives trending knowledge of products, competitors, technology and customers in the assigned supplier product market.
• Identifies and maintains field supplier relationships to create demand for products and services.
• Applies technical/marketing/product expertise to position company as the distributor of choice to suppliers.
• Drives assigned product family thrust with the company’s and supplier’s local sales teams and customer by attending supplier meetings establishing sales and marketing programs in coordination with Director Supplier Manager (DSM) and Supplier Business Manager (SBM) as applicable to increase assigned product knowledge for customers and company sales representatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Level Specifications:

• Mastery knowledge of industry best practices and disciplines. Considered a subject matter expert within the organization and contributes to the development of new concepts, techniques and standards.
• Develops solutions to highly complex and uniquely challenging situations. Assignments require extensive evaluation of alternatives and variables. Expected to make improvements to policies and procedures.
• Works independently toward long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated using independent judgment and discretion. May act as informal team lead and/or coach less experienced team members.
• Serves as consultant to management and/or internal/external spokesperson for the organization on major initiatives related to policies, plans and long-range objectives.
• Actions may impact the organization and its reputation. Effects of erroneous decisions may be long-lasting, influence the future course of the organization and/or require the expenditure of extensive additional resources.

Work Experience:

• Typically 3+ years with bachelor’s or equivalent.
• Working experience in one or several of the following areas: digital signal processing, high-speed data acquisition, RF system design in one or several of the following market segments: wireless communications, software-defined radio, 5G, SatCom, radar, high-speed test & measurement

Education and Certification(s):

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience from which comparable knowledge and job skills can be obtained.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

• Proficiency in digital signal processing, MATLAB programming, embedded software design, OOP
• Experience in firmware design for FPGA

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills.

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