Principal Field Application Engineer

The Role: This high-visibility role is part of the SiFive Customer Experience (CX) organization. As a Sr. Staff to Principal Field Application Engineer, you will own and drive the pre-sales technical engagement with current and prospective customers around their CPU, SoC Architecture, Security, and Software/Firmware requirements. You will need to formulate and clearly articulate a solution based on SiFive’s portfolio that can bring a differentiated value proposition to the customer’s needs. You will work closely with the Sales team to help meet sales targets. You will also act as the customer’s voice within the company, to enable delivery of market-focused solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in CPU microarchitecture, firmware development, and SoC implementation. Prior experience in a customer-facing support/pre-sales role would be an added advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Independently own, manage, and drive customer engagements - including evaluations, product demos, run customer benchmarks, PPA analysis, FPGA bringup, and more.
• Work hand-in-hand with the sales team and take technical ownership of the sales process.
• Independently and proactively seek out answers and devise solutions with ingenuity.
• Understand and interpret customers’ technical requirements & propose solutions to help build best-in-class RISC-V SoCs.
• Be the voice of the customer internally with an ability to clearly articulate detailed technical requirements to various internal stakeholders.
• Support Marketing activities as needed, in the form of webinars, blog posts, writing application notes, supporting trade-shows, etc.

Requirements:

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