u-blox · 1 day ago
Field Application Engineer, Japan
u-blox is a global leader in automotive, industrial, and consumer markets, driving innovation through cutting-edge positioning and short-range communication technologies. The Senior Field Application Engineer is responsible for providing the highest level of support to customers, assisting in technical pre-sales, and ensuring successful product integration into customer projects.
Internet of ThingsSemiconductorWireless
Responsibilities
Ensure an excellent 1st level support regarding our GNSS and Short-Range (Wifi, Bluetooth) products
Pre-sales assistance/Design-In Support/After-sales support
Customer developments (engineering)
Final evaluation of analyzed Returned Material and feed back to team
Consulting of customer projects in Support Area in consent of Business Development team and Head of the region
Coordination of Support Activities in consent with the Head of the region
Bench Test and RMA screening for local region
Organizes the technical training of u-blox customers' personnel and the distributors
Analysis of GNSS and Short Range market and new project opportunities reported to the Business Development team and Head of the region
Provides customer support reports to the Business Development team and Head of region
Provides a technical market feedback to Business Development team and bug reports to Head of region
Performs periodic technical competition analysis and road test according to instructions of Head of the region
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
Minimum 7 years of working experience in one or more of the following technical domains: GPS/GNSS technologies e.g Automotive Dead Reckoning, Timing, PPP, A-GNSS domains
Internet technologies TCP/IP, Sockets, HTTP
Hardware engineering, BB & RF, Microprocessor architecture, e.g ARM
Software engineering, Linux kernel, Android, RTOS embedded systems
Bluetooth and Wireless LAN technologies
Experienced in embedded HW&SW debugging on real time operating systems
Experienced in using embedded tools (emulators/JTAG-debuggers)
Strong problem-solving skills
Strong customer-orientation and interpersonal skills
Ability to quickly understand the customer´s application and system architecture
Fluent in English communication, both written and spoken
Working location – Tokyo, Japan
Preferred
Experience working with UDP, MQTT, Secure Key Management or web services will be added advantage
Company
u-blox
u-blox develops chips and modules for wireless communication and precise positioning for connected devices.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2025-08-17Acquired
2007-10-26IPO
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