APC Employment

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Job Descriptions

The following jobs are targeted at college students. However, APC has many other employment opportunities, most of which require significant or specialized experience. To view current job openings, click here.

• Technical Sales and Support
• Engineering

Technical Sales and Support

Inside Sales Representative

As an Inside Sales Representative on APC's Customer Solutions Team, you will “WOW” new and existing customers. The ISR’s role begins with intensive training on the IT industry and where APC solutions fit into this exploding marketplace. Once basic training is completed, you will enter the heartbeat of APC, our Customer Solutions Center, and join our Consumer Solutions Team. It is here that you will directly interface with our customers, delighting them with your industry knowledge and product expertise. You will be instrumental in providing customers solutions that meet their network availability needs. ISRs also proactively identify, quantify, and pursue new business prospects, attend trade shows, and work closely with their outside sales counterparts to close sales. As an ISR, you are truly entrepreneurial, and your promotion path is limited only by your drive, desire, and competitive spirit. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree, not necessarily in a technical field, or equivalent experience; demonstrated leadership, time-management, and problem-solving abilities; and the aptitude to understand and explain technical information. Successful candidates will also have the ability to develop and maintain productive business relationships with assigned accounts. Superior oral and written communication skills are a must. Experience with or knowledge of PCs is required.

Technical Support Engineer

As a Technical Support Engineer, your understanding of power and how it affects sensitive IT equipment will “WOW” our customers. Our TSEs provide expert technical advice on product selection and in-depth troubleshooting of post-sales problems as they relate to power, network design and availability, software, and APC products. Frequently having to interpret policies and make business decisions to meet aggressive deadlines, our TSEs operate with a lot of autonomy. As a TSE, you will also be a key contributor in the product development process by investigating design, reliability, and maintenance issues of APC products. The TSE career path leads to increasingly advanced areas of technical support, managerial roles, and positions in a variety of other departments within APC globally. Successful candidates for this position will possess strong technical and IT backgrounds; we require a BS (preferably in Engineering or CS) or equivalent work experience. Thorough knowledge of computer, internetworking, and storage equipment is required; knowledge of MS OSs and applications is desired. The ability to think analytically and make sound business decisions are a must; knowledge of power and electricity is a plus. This position will require some travel to industry trade shows and miscellaneous trainings.

Engineering

Electrical Engineer

As an Electrical Engineer, your expertise in the ever-changing field of electronics will be instrumental in developing the highest caliber circuit design in our industry. You will use your stores of knowledge in control theory, micro-coding, semiconductor physics, thermal analysis, fluid dynamics, and much more to back up your regular design work in power, analog, and digital circuit design. Your common sense in mechanical stress and materials characteristics, along with general economics and business intuition, will help you make smart decisions that contribute to the destiny of your projects. APC electrical engineers design products that contain power, analog, digital, micro-code, ASICs, and magnetic circuit elements.

Mechanical Engineer

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be challenged to design a product that delights your customers, is easy and economical to build, does the job, and looks great all at once. This is not easy when you consider the fact that you seldom get more than one chance! Our mechanical engineers design products that contain intricate sheet steel and detailed plastic elements to contain heavy and very densely packed electronic components. You will be involved in the aesthetic design and look, concept creation, mechanical and thermal analysis, SolidWorks entry and simulation, drawings, prototype creation, and the development of the tools to produce millions of what you conceived.

Firmware Engineer

As a Firmware Engineer, you will do what many would find impossible. You will understand your customers; understand the electrical circuits' design, strengths and limitations; understand the power and limits of your processor; and develop the core intelligence that makes the product live, breathe, and adapt to its environment, all while satisfying even the most latent of customers’ needs. Our firmware engineers design assembly code for a variety of processor architectures to control the power flow and functionality of products designed to protect the data and hardware of workstations, servers, and critical system components from damaging power fluctuations. You will be involved in state conceptualization, data flow analysis, structure definition, hardware design, code implementation, and verification testing.

Continuing Engineer

As a Continuing Engineer, you keep the power moving. You will be charged with bringing design into reality as you deliver award-winning products to customers all over the world. You will use your stores of knowledge in electrical, mechanical, control, magnetics, semiconductors, thermal effects, flow dynamics, mechanical stress, materials characteristics and much more to detect, track, and solve some of the world's toughest physics problems. APC products contain challenges in power, analog, digital, micro-code, ASICs, magnetic circuit elements, intricate sheet steel and detailed plastic elements.

Associate Software Engineer

As an Associate Software Engineer, you will build the interface that customers say really sets APC apart from its competitors, taking JAVA and C++ software applications from concept to market. On a typical day, you will write code, test, and debug applications; work with our customers and our Technical Support Team to define systems requirements and/or modifications; recommend and implement product and process improvements; complete documentation and procedures for specification, design, installation and maintenance; work on software integration with some of the most popular tools in the industry; and work with industry leaders such as IBM, Dell and HP. Successful candidates will have a Bachelor's Degree in a technical program (preferably Computer Science or Computer Engineering), and will be strong team players with creative problem solving and diagnostic abilities. JAVA development experience is required; C++ programming experience is desired; Windows NT, networking and HTML experience is desired. Our ASEs typically travel one week per quarter.