Senior Field Applications Engineer

Accountabilities:

• Provide technical guidance to customer PCB designers and manufacturing teams throughout the design and development cycle, advising on routing, layout, signal integrity, stack-up configuration, materials, and electrical and mechanical requirements.
• Educate customers on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Value (DFV) principles to improve product quality, manufacturability, reliability, and development speed.
• Review customer designs and design packages to identify manufacturability, reliability, controlled-impedance, specification, and other technical issues before production.
• Help reduce design-cycle time by facilitating the resolution of issues between customers and internal pre-production engineering teams.
• Support DFM and technical-quality processes by helping resolve on-hold issues efficiently and coordinating technical requirements with customer teams.
• Communicate manufacturing capabilities, technologies, and development roadmaps to customers through technical presentations and ongoing consultation.
• Provide internal manufacturing facilities with insight into evolving customer needs, future technology requirements, capability gaps, and potential development priorities.
• Facilitate customer technical requirements with engineering and operations teams, ensuring effective communication and alignment across functions.
• Establish and strengthen technical relationships between customer engineering organizations and internal teams to improve collaboration and long-term partnerships.
• Support Sales Account Managers by providing high-quality technical expertise that helps develop customer relationships and expand revenue opportunities.
• Create and deliver technical capability presentations in collaboration with sales and other stakeholders.
• Support customer visits and technical engagements as needed, including visits related to key programs, issue resolution, manufacturing sites, and technology initiatives.
• Help guide customers through transitions from QTA/NPI to high-volume manufacturing, supporting quality and yield objectives across North American and Asia-Pacific production capabilities.
• Balance multiple communication channels across Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering, Operations, and customer organizations while maintaining clear technical alignment.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of engineering experience related to PCB manufacturing, with a strong understanding of the complete PCB manufacturing process, including process flows, individual production steps, and tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline preferred.
• Strong understanding of PCB electrical design performance and signal integrity, including controlled impedance and insertion loss.
• Experience analyzing PCB designs for manufacturability, reliability, and performance, with the ability to identify and communicate design improvements.
• Intermediate proficiency in interpreting engineering drawings and blueprints, as well as experience with PCB CAM software, tooling, and PCB stack-up tools.
• Strong knowledge of PCB manufacturing technologies and the ability to understand customer requirements across prototype, new product introduction, and high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build productive relationships with customer engineering and design teams.
• Strong presentation and public-speaking abilities, including the confidence to deliver technical capability presentations to customers and stakeholders.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to influence PCB design quality and manufacturing yield for strategic customers.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently with limited supervision while exercising sound judgment.
• Highly organized and disciplined when working remotely, with the ability to manage priorities and maintain effective communication across distributed teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 15–25%, including customer visits and visits to manufacturing facilities in North America and potentially Asia-Pacific.
• Ability to comply with applicable export-control requirements, including ITAR, EAR, OFAC, and related procedures governing access to controlled products and technical information.

Benefits:

• Work arrangement: Remote position within the United States.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan to support long-term financial planning.
• Flexible spending: Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
• Additional coverage: Accident benefits, life insurance, and disability benefits.
• Paid time off: Paid vacation and holidays.
• Benefits eligibility: Benefit programs are generally available beginning on the first day of the month following the date of hire.
• Travel: Approximately 15–25% travel may be required for customer engagements and visits to manufacturing facilities.
• Career impact: Opportunity to influence PCB design, manufacturing quality, technology roadmaps, and customer outcomes across a global manufacturing environment.
• Professional environment: Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, sales, operations, development, and customer teams.