**Position Overview**

The best NI FAEs effectively balance their time between face-to-face technical interactions with target customers, technical demand generation activities, and providing insight and feedback as the voice of the customer. FAEs serve as highly trusted technical consultants, allowing them to influence the technical direction of target accounts and NI to ensure mutual customer and NI long-term success. They inspire NI internal technical stakeholders and engineers on the customer’s side to action through leading and coordinating technical strategy and activities to achieve co-authored technical objectives for top accounts. They stay in tune with industry trends and the NI technology roadmap to recommend approaches for customers’ current and future technical needs.

**Quick Summary**

NI Field Applications Engineers spend most of their time:

+ Building key technical relationships at top accounts demonstrating great technical credibility ...