Director, Product Applications

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Lead the factory applications organization to ensure excellent post-sales technical support to customers worldwide using Achronix products.
• Support sales teams in enabling design wins by representing Achronix as a technical leader in pre-sales customer meetings.
• Coordinate generation of technical collateral, including user guides and application notes, reference designs and training material for all Achronix products.
• Collaborate with the systems engineering team on device and board bring-up efforts and manage lab activities.
• Act as liaison and central point of contact for all field applications engineering (FAE) teams to enable successful account management and a good communications channel between the field and the factory.
• Engage with multiple engineering teams across organizations, including hardware, software, and systems engineering, on cross-functional efforts.
• Work with the product planning team on roadmap generation and help define technical specs based on learnings from customer experiences.
• Participate in trade shows and assist with outbound marketing efforts.
• Up to 25% travel may be required.

Required Skills

• Excellent communication and writing skills with ability to multi-task.
• Expert in FPGA/programmable logic architecture and design methodologies.
• Strong grasp of logic design, synthesis, timing, place and route and simulation for FPGA flows.
• Understanding of verification, test and quality concepts.
• Experience writing RTL in VHDL, Verilog or System Verilog, and scripting abilities in PERL/Tcl.
• Basic knowledge of SerDes, protocol IP, memory interfaces, processors and machine learning concepts, in particular for hardware acceleration applications.

Education and Experience

• 10 years of hands-on working experience with FPGAs and/or ASICs in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years’ experience managing teams of highly skilled engineers.
• 5 years’ experience being in a customer-facing role.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EE, CE or equivalent work experience.