Senior Applications Engineer - Automotive

• Pre-sales support and demand generation
  • Creation and demonstration of technical proof of concepts and performance benchmarks
  • Quick sales assistance, consulting, joint customer visit, web-meeting, and conference calls
  • Collaborate with Field AEs, Business Managers, and Sales to assist in uncovering business opportunities
• Requirement gathering and planning
  • Customer-specific application work, proposal of system architectures and configurations, training planning and execution, and technical consulting for test solution and workflow
  • Identify technical challenges in projects as it relates to the customer outcome
  • Customer requirements breakdowns for further analysis
  • Collaborate with the customer to form and clarify technical outcome of the future state
  • Collect project requirements during pre-sales and project kick-off
  • Assist in technical assessment for projects
  • Attend customer meetings (on-site when applicable) to better understand customer challenges and roadblocks to success
• Solution and system delivery
  • Implement customer or DUT-specific work (HW/SW)
  • Communicate with program/project team members and connects technical leaders to the key customer outcomes of the project
  • Lead on-site commissioning activities
  • Enable strategic partners in being successful in execution of Partner prime opportunities

Who You Are:

You are a trusted technical advisor in a specific automotive domain for NI internal and external collaborators, customers, partners, and team members. You achieve this by understanding market trends, staying up-to-date with brand new technology, and being aware of customer workflows and challenges. You are a good collaborator in distributed team by learning and helping each other with your teammate located in not only Japan, Korea, and India, but also China, US and Europe countries.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math)
• Ability to work independently but also in a team of global colleagues.
• Willingness and motivation to work closely in a business setting, facing customers..
• Confident appearance and excellent presentation skills.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in Software Engineering, Application Engineering, Test Solution Design, or ATE Test Development.
• Proven ability to use one or more programming languages (LabVIEW, C#, C++, Python, etc.) in software design and implementation with deep understanding of Software Engineering Body of Knowledge.
• Strong at debugging and solving complex technical problems.
• Willing to travel domestically and abroad in support of project objectives. (On average, up to 25% of the work is expected to involve business travel, with occasional trips spanning an entire week.)
• One day of remote work per week is optional, with the minimum four days spent working in the office or at customer sites.

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• NI LabVIEW and/or NI TestStand Certifications
• Knowledge and experience of NI products such as PXI/cRIO-based modules, VeriStand, TestStand, etc.
• Deep knowledge or strong background in Automotive technology (AD/ADAS, battery, motor, inverter), test automation, and measurement.