Field Application Engineer

The Field Applications Engineer is responsible to provide technical support for customers PCB designers and manufacturing groups. This position will interface with customers PCB designers and PCB technologists early on in the design cycle and provide feedback on routing and layout techniques, signal integrity performance, cost trade-off analysis of PCB layer stack-up, material selection process, and other electrical and mechanical requirements based on understanding of customers end product application.

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establish technical contacts between customers and TTM to drive improved lines of technical communications and increased depth of relationships.
- Assist the TTM pre-production teams thru the DFM/TQ process in getting on hold issues addressed at the customer site expeditiously.
- Provide review and analysis of customer designs for manufacturability, controlled impedance, and specification improvements, as well as alignment for TTM manufacturing capabilities.
- Update customer designers and manufacturing groups on TTM capabilities. Set roadmap and technology direction through formal customer presentations.
- Facilitate customer technical needs with internal engineering and operations.
* This position will interface regularly with TTMs Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering departments, and Operations, and it is essential that the employee be able to effectively balance the communication channels between these departments.
- Educate customer designers and technologists on Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Value (DFV)
* Reduce customers design cycle time by facilitating/eliminating problem disposition between TTMs pre-production engineering groups and the customer
* Improve the quality and completeness of design packages coming from the customer and help them by identifying design problems related to manufacturability and reliability test
- Provide TTM manufacturing facilities with insight into future customer roadmap needs and technology requirements. Identify and communicate roadmap and capability gaps. Facilitate customer technical needs with engineering and operations.
- Travel to customer sights to support issues, and/or, key programs as required.
- Assist the Sales Account Managers in increasing customer revenue through superior technical support and customer technical service.
- Create and conduct technical capability presentations to customers.
- Must have a thorough understanding of TTM PCB manufacturing capabilities and technologies to support QTA/NPI/High Volume Manufacturing; North America and Asia Pacific solutions