Principle Field Applications Engineer

An Insight Global client is looking to hire a full-time Principal-level Field Applications Engineer with a rare combination of deep embedded design expertise and extensive customer-facing experience. This role is ideal for someone who has spent 10+ years working directly with customers in a technical capacity—whether in sales engineering, field applications engineering, customer solutions, or technical consulting—and who thrives on owning an embedded solution from first customer conversation through production and long-term support.

This is not a pure development role and not a pure sales role. You will act as a technical lead, architect, and trusted advisor, helping customers define requirements, win internal buy-in, and successfully deliver production-grade embedded software.

Key Responsibilities:
Customer Engagement & Design Wins

- Act as a primary technical interface to customers, owning relationships from initial engagement through product launch
- Proactively identify new opportunities for design wins by understanding customer roadmaps, pain points, and business drivers
- Translate customer requirements into complete embedded system architectures
- Present and iterate on technical solutions with customer engineering and management teams
- Partner closely with sales to drive design wins to revenue, while independently leading the technical strategy

Embedded System Architecture & Design:
- Architect end‑to‑end embedded solutions, including hardware, firmware, and supporting tools
- Design production‑level hardware (schematic design, component selection, design for manufacturability)
- Develop production-level embedded firmware applications in C/C++ for microcontroller-based systems
- Implement RTOS-based designs, bootloaders, firmware update mechanisms, and peripheral drivers
- Adapt and extend reference designs to meet customer-specific requirements
- Implementation, Debug & Support

Own the technical success of customer projects through:

System bring-up and debugging
Root-cause analysis of hardware and firmware issues
Bug fixes and feature enhancements throughout the product lifecycle
Support customers post-design-win with:

Production readiness
Sustaining engineering
Feature expansion and roadmap alignment

Compensation Range: $130,000 - $150,000 in addition to bonuses (Employee & Company performance based), as well as Restricted Stock Units.

Employment also includes comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as PTO and personal/sick time.

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10+ years in a customer-facing technical role, such as: Field Applications Engineer, Sales Engineer, Customer Solutions Engineer, Embedded Systems Consultant

Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences. Build credibility and trust with customer engineering teams. Balance multiple customer engagements simultaneously.

​​10+ years of hands-on embedded system design experience

Strong experience with Embedded C/C++, Microcontrollers and system architecture, RTOS-based firmware development, Serial interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, USB etc.), Firmware update and bootloader design, Git-based workflows.

Hardware design experience including Schematic capture, Component selection, and board bring-up and debugging, and a proficiency with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers).

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining solutions from incomplete requirements.

Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Self-directed, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal supervision

Enjoys both technical depth and customer interaction
Able to prioritize across multiple opportunities while maintaining technical excellence

Able to act as a team leader

CI/CD for embedded firmware

Experience with embedded Linux

Secure boot and secure firmware update

Networking (wired or wireless)

Python for automation or tooling

Experience supporting products through volume production

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.