Field Applications Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Visit customer locations to establish relationships, address technical inquiries, and provide hands-on support for product applications.

• Assist customers with component selection, evaluation, qualification, and series production.

• Cultivate customer relationships through site visits, phone and video meetings, technical seminars, and various customer engagement activities.

• Offer technical assistance to outside sales personnel.

• Collaborate with internal teams and international colleagues.

• Identify and relay customer needs, application challenges, and market trends to management, Product Management, and Product Definition Engineering.

• Create and present technical presentations, training sessions, product demonstrations, and seminars.

• Provide expert technical support for electronic components and basic assistance for electromechanical components, including handling documentation and data requests.

• Represent Würth Elektronik eiSos at trade exhibitions, conferences, and industry events.

• Foster relationships with semiconductor-partner FAEs and FSEs to support customer-specific design achievements.

• Contribute to regional, national, and international conferences, workshops, and eiSos Technical Academy initiatives.

• Influence innovative electronic projects from conception to production while strengthening sustainable customer relationships.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mechatronics, Communications Engineering, or a similar technical qualification.

• Practical experience in application engineering, field applications, technical sales, hardware development, or a related customer-facing technical role.

• A solid understanding of electronic components and their applications.

• Knowledge of electromechanical components is a plus.

• Capability to analyze technical requirements, clearly communicate complex topics, and develop customer-oriented solutions.

• Confident presentation and training abilities for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong skills in relationship-building and a collaborative, dependable work style.

• Willingness to travel regularly within the region.

• Excellent communication skills in English.

• Proficiency in additional regional languages is advantageous.

• Familiarity with common digital communication and presentation tools.

• Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites 20–40% of the time, including approximately 10–15 weeks of domestic travel and 1–4 weeks of international travel annually.

🏝️ Benefits

• Basic Life, Vision, and Short and Long Term Disability insurance provided by the Company at no cost to you.

• Medical, Dental, Additional Life Insurance, and Vision insurance for employees and their families available at group rates through payroll deduction.

• Identity Theft Protection.

• Legal Services Benefit.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Day Care Accounts.

• Benefits become available on the first of the month following the hire date, with the exception of Short and Long Term Disability, which has a 60-day waiting period.

• Opportunities for training, conferences, and eiSos Technical Academy participation.

• Full-time remote work.

• Company support for travel to customer sites, conferences, trade shows, and industry events.