Field Application Engineer – FAE

San Jose California $150000

A leading electronics manufacturer is looking for a Junior Field Application Engineer to act as the technical link between its production facilities and customer engineering teams. This is a customer-facing collaborative role combining technical expertise with relationship management across design quality and manufacturing functions.

• Provide DFM (Design for Manufacturability) and stack-up support for new and existing customer designs
• Participate in design reviews prior to release and help define drawing notes to meet specific design and manufacturing requirements
• Implement industry standards and customer-specific specification requirements

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between internal production/engineering groups and customers
• Attend scheduled customer meetings and provide technical Q&A support
• Travel to customer sites to support technical discussions program reviews and issue resolution
• Create and deliver technical capability presentations in partnership with the sales team

• Communicate customer technology needs and roadmap gaps to internal teams
• Update customers on production capabilities and facility technology roadmaps
• Support factory investigations of quality issues as they arise
• Travel to factory locations to support customer visits and audits
• Collaborate with account managers to grow customer revenue through technical support

This role is ideal for an early-career engineer looking to grow in a customer-facing technical capacity. Strong candidates will come from a background in field applications front-end engineering process engineering or quality engineering with field application experience being the strongest fit.