via Workday
$181K - 262K a year
Support and enable distribution partners to generate demand, develop opportunities, and close sales within the territory, ensuring partner readiness and alignment.
Bachelor's in a related field, 5+ years in technical sales, experience with programmable logic or ASIC design preferred, CRM experience, and distributor collaboration.
Job Details: Job Description: Join Altera as a Field Sales Engineer! The Field Sales Engineer role focuses on enabling, influencing, and supporting Altera's authorized distribution partners to create demand, generate opportunities, and close sales within the geographic territory that consists of MN, IA, MO, KS, NE, SD, ND. The individual in this role will own sales budget targets for metrics like new opportunities uncovered, new design wins, and revenue growth at the accounts within the specified geographic territory. In order to achieve these targets, the individual will drive all sales activities at the accounts classified as 'distributor-led' within the territory. These activities include demand creation, opportunity development, forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and sales execution. Since these accounts are 'distributor-led', a crucial element of this role will be to ensure the local distribution branches within the territory are fully equipped, motivated, and aligned to drive Altera's business. This includes facilitating branch trainings, regularly attending joint customer visits, leading promotional activities, and maintaining partner relationships. Internally this individual will drive opportunity visibility, accelerate technical support coordination, and manage issue resolution through collaboration with marketing, operations, applications engineering, and other supporting roles. Salary Range The compensation below is reflective of a sales role that includes a salary + incentive. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor within the US market. Actual compensation may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. $181.1K - $262.2K USD We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technology field. 5+ years experience in technical sales Preferred: Experience with FPGA/SoC or ASIC design Experience with any programmable logic or other specialized processing elements (microprocessors, GPU, CPU, etc.) Experience working with major tech distributor(s) (e.g. Arrow Electronics, Macnica) Experience working with tech design firm(s) Experience navigating and maintaining a CRM tool like Salesforce Job Type: Regular Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America) Primary Location: Minnesota, United States (Remote) Additional Locations: Posting Statement: 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. About Altera Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet. Don't see the dream job you are looking for? Click "Get Started" below to drop off your contact information and resume and we will reach out to you if we find the perfect fit.
This job posting was last updated on 12/18/2025