Application Engineer

Role overview

Serve as the customer-facing technical partner for evaluating and adopting precision technology products, including embedded identification modules, machine vision cameras, medical scanners, displays and tailored solutions. Working closely with sales, you will understand customer requirements, demonstrate how products can address them, and help move solutions from evaluation through integration and startup. The work combines technical problem-solving, customer communication and commercial support across healthcare, life sciences and advanced automation settings.

Responsibilities

- Discover customer needs and recommend suitable products or tailored technical solutions. - Lead product demonstrations, onsite proof-of-concepts and technical presentations; support integration, startup and adoption. - Advise customers on integrating products with PLCs, PCs and controllers, and prototype applications where useful. - Partner with sales to estimate product costs and engineering effort for proposals, and report opportunity progress and recommended next steps. - Bring customer requirements and feedback to internal product and development teams; contribute to technical guides and other product documentation. - Present at customer meetings, trade shows and seminars while following applicable quality, environmental and workplace safety requirements.

Requirements

- Two to five years of relevant customer-facing experience in a technology company. - An associate degree at minimum in electrical, computer or software engineering, or equivalent relevant experience; a bachelor’s degree is preferred. - Strong customer focus, communication skills and ability to identify needs and develop practical solutions. - Familiarity with engineering and operations processes such as bills of materials, project estimation and engineering change procedures. - Fluent English and a valid US driver’s license; able to travel frequently within the United States, with occasional international travel. - Able to lift up to 50 pounds and stand for extended periods.

Nice to have

- Coding experience in Python, C++, C# or Java; knowledge of machine vision, robotics, AI or deep learning; and familiarity with customer relationship management tools.