Field Application Engineer - TalentZök
OVERVIEW
Are you looking for a new career opportunity with an exciting company?! Then we've got the right team for you! In this role, you're responsible for the duties listed below.
Immediate opening for a Field Application Engineer in Hauppauge, NY who possesses:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in applications engineering, RF engineering, test engineering, field applications engineering, or a related technical role
- Knowledge of discrete semiconductors and related components
- US Person status required
- Willingness to travel 30% to 50% domestically and internationally
FULL DESCRIPTION: We are seeking a Field Application Engineer to support sales and customer engagement efforts by serving as a technical resource for customers, sales representatives, distributors, and internal teams. This role is responsible for understanding customer design requirements, recommending appropriate semiconductor products and solutions, supporting pre- and post-sales technical discussions, and helping drive design activity, design wins, and long-term sales growth. The ideal candidate will have strong semiconductor product knowledge, customer-facing technical experience, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
The selected candidate will be responsible for:
- Identifying, developing, and maintaining relationships with key customer technical decision makers, engineers, and influencers
- Working directly with customers to understand system-level and component-level design requirements
- Recommending appropriate semiconductor products and solutions based on customer applications
- Providing pre- and post-sales technical support
- Supporting product selection, application guidance, component evaluation, board-level testing, and troubleshooting
- Collaborating with sales, engineering, quality, operations, and production teams to address customer design challenges and technical questions
- Communicating customer requirements back to internal engineering, quality, operations, and sales teams
- Supporting design-in and design-win activity by promoting products, tracking customer opportunities, and helping move technical opportunities through the sales cycle
- Developing and presenting customer-facing technical materials, including presentations, application notes, design guides, technical papers, product documentation, and training materials
- Providing product and application-level training to sales teams, representatives, distributors, and customers
- Representing the company at customer visits, trade shows, symposiums, and technical or industry events
- Supporting customer product qualifications, technical discussions, and application reviews
- Traveling domestically and internationally to support customer meetings, trade shows, and technical engagements
- Performing other duties as assigned
The selected candidate will also possess:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical field required
- Equivalent directly related experience may be considered
- 5 to 7 years of experience in applications engineering, field applications engineering, product engineering, design engineering, or a related technical role preferred
- Knowledge of discrete semiconductors and related components required
- Experience with diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, or related components preferred
- Prior customer-facing engineering experience in a field applications, technical sales, or sales engineering role preferred
- Experience supporting design-in and design-win activity with OEMs, distributors, representatives, or strategic accounts preferred
- Familiarity with detailed customer specifications, including electrical and mechanical specifications
- Ability to perform basic electronic circuit analysis to support component selection
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience preparing and delivering technical presentations
- Experience developing technical papers, application notes, training materials, product guides, or customer-facing technical documentation preferred
- Familiarity with failure analysis, quality investigations, corrective action support, and customer product qualifications preferred
- Experience presenting at trade shows, symposiums, technical conferences, or customer training events preferred
- Experience working with aerospace and defense customers preferred
- Ability to work onsite in Hauppauge, NY
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 30% to 50% of the time
- US Person status required
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods while reviewing technical documentation, customer specifications, presentations, reports, and product information
- Ability to communicate by phone, email, video meeting, and in person throughout the workday
- Ability to review electrical specifications, mechanical specifications, technical data, application notes, product documentation, and computer screens for extended periods
- Ability to use hands and fingers for typing, documentation, presentations, data entry, and standard engineering or office tasks
- Ability to occasionally stand, walk, bend, reach, and move throughout office, engineering, lab, trade show, or customer site environments as needed
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally for customer meetings, trade shows, technical events, and onsite engagements
- Ability to occasionally lift, carry, or move standard office, presentation, trade show, or technical materials as needed
- Ability to work in office, engineering, lab, or customer site environments while following applicable safety procedures
Salary Range: $110,000 to $140,000/year + 8% bonus
More information can be found at www.talentzok.com.
Company Description
TalentZok was founded in 2008 and has been repeatedly recognized as one of San Diego County's fastest growing businesses. In 2025, we were named Business Journal's 'Best Places to Work'. Even as our competitors are scaling back and laying off staff, Simply Biotech is expanding to new markets and hiring additional staff in existing offices.