Beschreibung
**About the role**
The Field Application Engineer works across the EMEA Sales & Marketing department and the Business Group Application and Marketing teams. They drive all necessary technical support actions to insure business creation at Automotive accounts.
**What you will do**
In this exciting role, your key responsibilities will be, among others
- Drive design wins and socket adoption in assigned target accounts by providing high‑impact technical engagement throughout the customer design...
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**About the role**
The Field Application Engineer works across the EMEA Sales & Marketing department and the Business Group Application and Marketing teams. They drive all necessary technical support actions to insure business creation at Automotive accounts.
**What you will do**
In this exciting role, your key responsibilities will be, among others
- Drive design wins and socket adoption in assigned target accounts by providing high‑impact technical engagement throughout the customer design cycle
- Plan and execute customer visits and distributor partner trainings, delivering compelling technical product presentations, demonstrations, and clear value propositions
- Lead proof‑of‑concept activities, solution design, and technical demonstrations to support customer evaluations and secure design wins
- Act as the technical project lead for assigned design‑in campaigns, ensuring early involvement in customer roadmaps and a structured, timely information flow between customers, sales, and internal Business Groups
- Analyze customer system architectures and requirements; own and maintain system and block diagrams to ensure full alignment and understanding across internal technical teams
- Qualify sales opportunities by translating customer technical requirements into well‑defined application solutions and positioning Nexperia effectively against competitors
- Articulate and quantify the technical and system‑level advantages of Nexperia products versus competitive alternatives, including performance, reliability, cost, and integration benefits
- Synthesize customer feedback, application trends, and competitive insights to actively influence product definition, feature prioritization, and roadmap evolution
- Provide continuous formal and informal knowledge sharing, enabling customers and partners to understand the technical, operational, and commercial impact of Nexperia solutions
- Build and maintain strong, trust‑based relationships with key customer stakeholders, assigned direct account sales teams, and internal business groups to support joint account objectives and long‑term strategic engagement
- Analyze customers’ technical strategies and future requirements to enable the sales team to act proactively, forecast more accurately, and respond effectively to customer needs
- Support ongoing enablement of regional sales organizations by educating teams on new technologies, product introductions, application use cases, and associated business value
**What you will need**
- Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering or similar
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in design engineering and application engineering
- Preferably related work experience at a customer within the Automotive segment
- Strong communication and presentation skills to drive communication with relevant stake holders
- Excellent communication skills in German and English
- Target driven, shows initiative and have an entrepreneurial attitude
- Willingness to travel >50%