Field Application Engineer

at  Codasip

WELCOME TO CODASIP

We believe Codasip is the most innovative processor solutions company. We take pride in designing and developing cutting-edge, high-performance, and energy-efficient CPU cores from scratch, and our own automated proprietary tools to fully customize them. We give our customers a unique competitive advantage by empowering their system-on-chip developers to build the most innovative products.
Our processor cores are based on the RISC-V open architecture. The potential for customizing RISC-V is unlocked with the Codasip Custom Compute approach: our unique architecture description language, CodAL, and the powerful automated processor design tool, Codasip Studio. These are at the heart of our unique and groundbreaking RISC-V processor solutions.
Founded in 2014, we’ve grown into a thriving and talented global community. Our IP engineering teams work from offices spread across Europe, including our first and largest design center in the beautiful city of Brno, Czechia. Across Europe, we already have design teams in Cambridge, Bristol, Munich, Villeneuve-Loubet, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Heraklion and Athens. The Codasip team is also based close to its customers, which means we have dedicated sales and application engineers in the USA, Japan, Korea, and China.
Codasip is a private company backed by well-funded EU grants. Our products are already making a real impact, with billions of devices already in the market powered by our processor IP and tools.

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Codasip our Field Application Engineers play a critical role in supporting our sales managers and linking customers back to our R&D engineering teams, making sure evaluations go well and providing both pre and post-sales support. FAEs are responsible for building trust and long term relationships with our customers. They have to be able to get their hands dirty debugging customer problems and providing technical advice and guidance. You will be supported by technical experts in our European HQ.
Codasip’s highest value product is our Codasip Studio tool, a new way to design and customize processors, so you must excel at presenting and explaining new technologies to sceptical customers and demonstrating that our solution will help them get to market faster.
While Codasip is headquartered in Europe, our approach and culture are typical of Silicon Valley, meaning that we value prudent risk-taking and “out of the box” thinking. We are a well-funded start-up poised for dynamic growth based on our leading-edge product portfolio and therefore need our FAE team to also help us grow our market share and evangelize our technology to the semiconductor industry.

REQUIREMENTS

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of experience in the EDA or semiconductor IP industry.
• Prior experience as an FAE or in a customer-facing technical support role.
• Knowledge of embedded programming including Arm or RISC-V assembly code.
• Understanding of processor design, how a CPU pipeline works.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent in German and English language.
• Ability and willingness to travel, potentially up to 20% of the time.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Technical engagement with customers from initial prospect to post-sales support.
• Support regional sales team in all sales and business development related activities.
• Develop collateral such as application notes, customer and conference presentations.
• Provide feedback and intelligence from customers to R&D for improving our products and influencing the future roadmap.

CORE SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR THE FIELD APPLICATION ENGINEER ROLE:

• Collaboration. As an FAE, you will have to collaborate with multiple teams across the business. This will often include the sales and marketing department, the engineering department, product management, sales management.
• Communication. The ability to speak and write to a high standard is crucial. You will frequently have to present new products both to customers and at conferences, telling the ‘story’ of products. You may also contribute to collateral such as application notes or training material.
• Technical credibility. You need to be trusted by customers to give impartial advice and answer their technical questions accurately.
• Organizational Skills. Individuals need to be highly organized to manage multiple tasks and customers effectively and efficiently.