FAE Software Application Engineer

45 Minutes ago • 14 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Qualcomm is seeking a senior Field Application Engineer (FAE) with a Software Application background for its Customer Engineering team. This role involves building strong relationships with industrial partners, distributors, and customers. The FAE will act as a technical pre-sales engineer, providing support throughout the customer product development lifecycle. Responsibilities include organizing technical trainings, understanding system requirements, and collaborating across teams. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills in both regional languages (German, French, or Italian) and English, along with a strong technical aptitude for advanced connectivity, AI, machine learning, and computer vision technologies.
Must have:
  • Fluent native regional written and oral communication
  • Good English written and oral communication
  • 14+ years industrial experience with embedded/industrial IoT customers
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • High motivation and ability to learn quickly
  • Must be a self-starter
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with embedded systems and real-time OS (Linux, Yocto, Ubuntu, Windows)
  • Understanding of computer system architecture
  • Experience in C/C++ programming
  • Experience with testing tools/scripts (Python, shell script)
  • AI and ML software and frameworks experience
  • Hardware systems design experience
Perks:
  • Highly competitive salaries
  • Generous benefits package
  • Healthcare
  • Bonus
  • RSU share scheme
  • ESPP share saving schemes

Job Details

Overview:

We now have an opening for a senior FAE style role targeting both customers and distributors, the candidate must have very good communications skills for the target region of the role in addition to English. We are looking for a highly enthusiastic team player that is completely at ease talking to customers at a roadmap technical level and during business discussions that also has a background in Software applications. We have several roles and will be looking for candidates in Germany, France and Italy close to Industrial and partner companies.

Qualcomm offers highly competitive salaries and a generous benefits package including healthcare, Bonus, RSU share scheme as well as ESPP share saving schemes.

Company Overview:

Qualcomm is a world leading communications company with over 40,000 global employees. Qualcomm’s heritage comes as a world leader in mobile phone technology and now we have successfully diversified into the Automotive arena for infotainment and telematics. We are now continuing our diversification into IoT based on exciting new Qualcomm SoC based products with next generation AI, Machine learning, computer vision and cellular communication technologies. Qualcomm enables and collaborates across the ecosystem to unlock the vast potential of IoT to truly transform industries through turnkey solutions, driving the convergence of advanced connectivity, high performance compute, low power processing and AI on the Edge.

Job function:

To join Qualcomm’s Customer Engineering team in an FAE/SW applications role. To forge strong and trusted relationships with key Industrial partners, to support customer development of exciting new Qualcomm SoC based products with next generation AI, Machine learning, computer vision and cellular communication technologies.

FAE SW Apps role:

  • Build relationships with Distributors , Industrial customers and partners.

  • Organize technical trainings on Qualcomm products

  • Act as technical pre-sales engineer

  • Support distributors and customers in their product development lifecycle

  • Support business teams in their discussions with distributors and customers

  • Understand key aspects of system requirements and designs.

  • To train customers and partners on Qualcomm’s platforms and features

  • Collaborate across multiple teams and locations

  • Travel extensively to directly support distributors and customers

Skills/experience:

 Required:

  • Fluent Native regional written and oral communication.

  • Good English written and oral communication.

  • 14+ years of industrial experience supporting embedded/industrial IOT customers based on Tier1 chipsets.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, high motivation, the ability to learn quickly and must be a self-starter.

Preferred:

  • Familiar with embedded system and real-time OS - exposure to one or more of Linux, Yocto, Ubuntu, windows systems – bring-up, device tree, peripheral customizations.

  • Understanding of computer system architecture (core, cache, memory models, bus architecture, etc.)

  • Experience in C/C++ programming, systems knowledge.

  • Experience with testing tools/scripts (python, shell script) development on Windows and Linux.

  • AI and ML software and frameworks experience

  • Hardware systems design experience

Education requirements:

  • Masters or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

  • Must demonstrate excellent communication skills in either German, French or Italian (as per location) and English (both written and oral).

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About The Company

Our employees make Qualcomm’s success possible. We hire the brightest minds and foster a supportive, inclusive culture where your ideas have the power to contribute to world-changing innovations and breakthrough technologies. To make that possible, we leverage the breadth and depth of our diverse expertise from around the world to answer the unasked, conquer the complex, and solve some of the biggest challenges only we can – together.

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