Senior Field Applications Engineer Aerospace and Defense
National Instrument, Inc.

NI Field Application Engineers demonstrate the highest degree of technical aptitude and professional engineering skills while contributing to key accounts and company strategy. They generate and execute on technical demand while becoming trusted technical advisors for key customers. This is a unique role that requires not only technical leadership, but also strong interpersonal and relationship development skills, customer-facing experience, business acumen, and personal drive.

Position Overview

The best NI Field Application Engineers effectively balance their time between face-to-face technical interactions with target customers, technical activities, and providing insight and feedback as the voice of the customer. Field Application Engineers serve as highly trusted technical consultants, allowing them to influence the technical direction of target accounts and NI to ensure mutual customer and NI long-term success. They inspire NI internal technical stakeholders and customer engineers to action through leading and coordinating technical strategy and activities to achieve co-authored technical objectives for top accounts. They stay in tune with industry trends and the NI technology roadmap to recommend approaches for customers' current and future technical needs.

Quick Summary

NI Field Applications Engineers spend most of their time:

Building key technical relationships at top accounts demonstrating great technical credibility increasing customer technical confidence in NI

Understanding and assist in creation of customer technical requirements.

Provide recommendations on software architectures, hardware while helping understand the next steps to ensure success

Collaborating with the NI Account Manager(s) as part of an account team to lead development and execution of the account technical strategy providing insight to the overall account strategy and pipeline

Coordinating with and informing internal technical 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 generating further technical demand for NI products, services, and support

This position is compensated by 80% base salary and 20% variable pay based on achievement of annual quota attainment.

Basic Qualifications

BS degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics)

5 years of industry experience

3 years of programming experience

2 years of experience in RF Fundamentals and Measurements

Willing and able to travel - Regional and Austin, TX, up to 25%

U.S. Citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications

Degree concentration in electrical or computer engineering

Experience with NI LabVIEW, and NI TestStand, and NI PXI platform, including developer certifications

English Language Competency and effective oral and written communication skills

5 years of experience in RF Fundamentals and Measurements, Software Engineering concepts, and Automated Measurement Systems

Advanced skill in at least one of the following programming languages: LabVIEW, .NET, Python, C++, C#

2 years of experience in a customer-facing role

Experience contributing to organization, account, or engagement strategies

Able to integrate business, operational, and interpersonal considerations into technical engagements

Why NI?

There are many reasons to consider joining a company. Key among them are the people, the ideas, and the technology. At NI, we believe in the power and potential of connecting the three to create a path to success.

The people : We're looking for curious and creative problem solvers who value diversity and fresh perspectives, are bold and kind, and willing to take chances.

The ideas : What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you want to program robots? Build flying cars? Leave the world better than you found it? At NI, we build on the big ideas of big dreamers to make their visions a reality.

The technology : With our tailored, software-connected approach, we support our customers through all phases of the product development cycle. From 5G and medical innovations to autonomous driving and the future of space travel, we help our customers Engineer Ambitiously every day.

We've long been globally recognized as a top employer. Our compensation and benefits are very competitive, as are our modern workspaces, career development and mobility opportunities, and a culture that fosters belonging and emphasizes community giving. We encourage our teammates to challenge the status quo and collaborate with one another to build innovative solutions.

No matter your career path, we're here for you, for each other, and for the next generation of innovators who think bigger, aim higher, and go faster.

Are you up for the challenge of helping shape humanity for the next 100 years? If so, let's get started, and let's Engineer Ambitiously together.

NI is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

We are changing how we work by offering more flexibility. NI has decided to take a hybrid approach (working both on- and off-site) at an aggregate level. We know that different roles have different requirements, so we're embracing a full range of options.

Please be advised that if President Biden's Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, is ultimately upheld after the legal process concludes, NI will comply with the Executive Order. Accordingly, if the Executive Order is upheld in its current form, NI will require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and present acceptable proof of vaccination upon hire as a condition of employment. NI will consider requests for reasonable accommodation as required under applicable law. To qualify as being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a two-week period must have passed after receiving the second dose in a 2-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or after receiving a single-dose in a single dose COVID-19 vaccine.

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