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About the Role
Altera is seeking an experienced Field Sales Engineer to drive growth across an assigned territory in the Central EMEA region. The role may focus on growing territory coverage and distribution customers, or developing strategic customers through focused demand creation. The successful candidate will combine technical credibility, commercial drive, and strong relationship-building skills to achieve sustainable revenue growth.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute sales plans to achieve or exceed assigned revenue and design win targets.
- Identify, qualify, and pursue new business opportunities, including early-stage demand creation and design-win activity.
- Manage and grow customer accounts and distribution partners through strong multi-level relationships.
- Own the broader commercial relationship with strategic customers and channel partners, including pricing, contractual terms, volume commitments, supply expectations, and issue escalation.
- Understand customer needs and position Altera’s products and solutions effectively.
- Prepare and deliver sales presentations, product demonstrations, technical proposals, and business cases.
- Drive opportunities through the sales cycle, from prospecting and technical engagement through design win, negotiation, and closure.
- Build joint business plans with channel partners or account plans with strategic customers.
- Collaborate closely with field application engineering, applications engineering, marketing, product management, and product development.
- Maintain accurate forecasts, pipeline data, opportunity plans, and customer information in the CRM system.
- Monitor industry trends, competitive activity, and market conditions to identify opportunities and risks.
- Represent Altera at customer meetings, industry events, trade shows, and partner activities.
- Travel regularly within the assigned territory in Central EMEA.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of successful experience in technical sales, field applications, account management, or a comparable customer-facing role, preferably in semiconductors or embedded systems.
- Demonstrated success in meeting or exceeding sales targets.
- Experience with distribution partners, channel ecosystems, strategic accounts, or technology-driven customer programs.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong customer-development, opportunity-management, forecasting, and CRM skills.
- Self-motivated, proactive, commercially minded, and results-oriented.
- Proficiency with CRM systems such as Salesforce and Microsoft Office or comparable tools.
- Willingness to travel frequently within the assigned territory in Central EMEA.
Skills
- Strong understanding of FPGAs, SoCs, and related hardware and software design flows is highly preferred.
- Fluency in German and English, both written and spoken, is required.
Location
- Berlin, Germany (Remote)
Work Type
- Regular
- Remote
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.