Field Applications Associate Principal Engineer

Job Posting Start Date 07-03-2024 Job Posting End Date 08-05-2024

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Field Applications Associate Principal Engineer located in the San Francisco Bay area.

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Sales Operations, the Field Application Associate Principal Engineer role will be accountable for providing technical guidance and information to customers on a pre-sales and post-sales basis to enable delivery of design, fabrication, and assembly goals, per customers’ expectations.

What a typical day looks like:

• Uses technical knowledge of products and associated development tools to assist customers on complex issues.

• Provides technical expertise during product development by defining customer product needs and translating these needs into new product recommendations and specifications.

• Reviews customer requirements, identifies and communicates potential issues and provides recommendations that will meet both the capabilities Flex and the specifications of the customer.

• Coordinates product integration efforts between component suppliers, Flex, and the customer.

• Develops and presents technical seminars for customers and sales personnel to promote employers' manufacturing capabilities, services, available technologies, manufacturing process and quality.

• Works with customer representatives to coordinate vendor qualification surveys.

• Provides best in class, complex, technical assistance by answering and closing all customer and program management technical questions related to manufacturing capabilities including design, fabrication, and assembly abilities.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically require a bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.

• Typically requires 7+ years of related experience.

• Demonstrates expert operations, technical and people and/or process skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.

• Demonstrates mastery of expertise in multiple areas and industry.

• Demonstrates mastery of functional knowledge in …