Job description
General Purpose:
Field Applications Engineer (FAE) supports for key Multek Rigid, Flexible and Rigid/Flex PCB accounts of Commercial and Industrial market segments. The FAE organization is a globally targeted resource, responsible for providing technical support to a broad customer base.
Principle Accountabilities/Duties:
- Technical Sales Support for regional Global Account Managers and Business Development teams
- Serve a liaison between manufacturing and customer during project development
- Provide early preliminary Design Review to help optimizing customers’ designs for manufacturing, with a focus on Manufacturability, Performance and Cost
- Provide technical presentations, both internally and externally detailing business and technical content
- Assist customers as a technical resource in selection of design standards, material, production capabilities and industry standard practices
- Conduct comprehensive design review and provide feedbacks to customers on products production readiness and areas of improvement
- Assist as a communication liaison between the customers and manufacturing sites, with a focus on regional culture, language and time zone
- Communicate customers’ current and future technology requirements to manufacturing, which assist in driving production technology to meet today’ s evolving market challenges
- Perform technical tasks such as DFM Analysis, Stack-up generation, Quality Review and Gap Analysis strategy
- Team with Operations to conduct NPI, QTA, and various product stage-gate design-build cycles on schedule
- Must develop customer technology roadmap requirements and seek out new adjacent opportunities
- Must develop key executive relationships with customers' engineering and product design organizations and the Multek executive team
Job Requirements:
Education / Experience
- A BA/BS degree in an appropriate engineering discipline or 10 years of equivalent industry experience is required. A focus on electrical engineering, materials engineering, or mechanical engineering is a plus
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- A minimum of 2 years related of rigid and rigid-flex PCB manufacturing experience
- Specific experience in key market segments, such as Consumer Electronics, MCM, RF Applications, Infrastructure, Automotive and Industrial segments is a plus
- Must understand the technology requirements, quality and reliability standards and product qualifications procedures
- Proven in-depth understanding of product design and resultant PCB stack-up solutions.
- Understanding of DFM Analysis software and Stack-up simulation software, such as InPlan, InStack, Genesis, InCAM and/or CAM350.
- Must be proficient in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- This position requires domestic and international travel which may be up to 40% during specific project stages time
- Must be responsible and self-motivated individual
- Required to be street smart and provide feedback on the industry, competition, and market conditions.
Others
- Must be able to speak and write English well, with bilingual skills being a plus
- Additional preferred qualifications:
- Experience in key business segment with a good understanding of the all requirements. Understanding of complex HDI, High Layer Count Rigid PCB design and build processes. Experience in high reliability products and factory certification/quality management systems a definite plus
- Experience in Flex and Rigid/Flex PCB manufacturing, with relationship to the mechanical and manufacturing process
- Experience in developing the high performance PCB solutions for known product developments with commercial success a strong plus. Certification in quality systems, project management, and statistical process control desirable for this environment
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $95,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
Travel requirement:
Location:
Work Location: Remote