Solution Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role:

As a Solution Engineer, you’ll be the trusted consultant for Altium’s Enterprise customers, ensuring they maximize value from our solutions. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with industry knowledge to drive deal strategies, optimize customer workflows, and deliver measurable business outcomes. By leading value assessments, creating executive-level content, and collaborating cross-functionally, you’ll directly influence customer success and revenue growth. This role blends strategic consulting, technical pre-sales, and value engineering—perfect for those passionate about transforming complex challenges into scalable solutions.

A Day in the Life of Our Solution Engineer:

• Provide consulting services to Enterprise customers, identifying bottlenecks in their electronic hardware development process and recommending Altium solutions.

• Conduct industry research and develop content/messaging strategies for target accounts and executive audiences.

• Lead value assessment workshops to quantify financial/operational impacts of Altium solutions and build business cases.

• Present Altium’s value proposition to decision-makers, acting as a trusted advisor with integrity.

• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, R&D, and Support to align customer needs with product roadmaps.

• Track and coordinate multiple customer priorities, ensuring deliverables meet expectations and timelines.

• Travel regularly to customer sites (US/Europe) for onsite engagements.

Qualifications

 

Who You Are and What You’ll Need:

• Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent professional experience.

• Experience: 5+ years in Value Engineering, professional services, customer success, or strategic customer-facing roles. Altium product experience is highly desirable.

• Customer Expertise: Proven track record managing enterprise customers in complex environments (e.g., integrations, PLM, ECAD workflows).

• Technical Skills: Hands-on experience with ECAD software, PLM integrations, and PCB design processes.

• Strategic Mindset: Ability to develop executive-aligned content, lead value-based sales strategies, and solve technical/business challenges.

• Communication: Exceptional verbal/written skills; able to simplify technical concepts for diverse audiences.

• Travel & Language: Willingness to travel monthly; fluency in English (German beneficial for EU roles).

Additional Information

The expected annual pay for this position is $98,000 Base Salary. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘ To Make Our Lives Easier .’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘ To Make Our Lives Easier .’

At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career  in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact  by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas.  Shape Your Future with Us .

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.

Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.

From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.