Field Applications Engineer (w/m/d)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; München; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium Limited, part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, seeks a Field Applications Engineer to join a world‑class technical sales engineering organization focused on the small‑medium portfolio. You will drive customer success, market adoption, and business growth by leveraging ECAD data management expertise across the product lifecycle.

Whether guiding engagements with Sales, Marketing, Product Management or Engineering, you will translate complex ECAD solutions

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in ECAD presales, customer success, or client-facing roles in EDA.
• Fluent English and German (C1+).
• Experience with ECAD tools including schematic and PCB design, PLM integration, MCAD collaboration.
• Translate complex ECAD solutions into measurable business value.
• Bachelor/Master in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical engagements with customers across EMEA for Altium products.
• Communicate technical solutions in terms of business value, productivity, and risk reduction.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering to drive opportunity execution.
• Define evaluation goals and success criteria with customers and position against competitors.
• Travel up to 30%.

Skills

ECAD presales

Customer engagement

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Fluent English and German

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ECAD tools

PLM integration

MCAD collaboration

PCB design

Job description

We are seeking a Field Application Engineering looking to grow on a world-class technical sales engineering organization focused on our small-medium portfolio. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in ECAD and electronic data management with strong autonomy capabilities to drive customer success, market adoption, and business growth.

Working across Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering, you will guide technical customer engagements and advocate for their requirements throughout the product lifecycle. This highly demanding role requires strategic thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to influence buyers key decisions while building trusted relationships with customers worldwide. Travel of up to 30% is expected.

The day in the life of the Field Applications Engineer:

• Successful execution of technical sales initiatives across EMEA regions for the assigned product portfolio.
• Communicate complex technical solutions in terms of measurable business value, productivity gains, risk reduction, and strategic outcomes.
• Work alongside Sales and Account Managers to execute strategic account plans and expand long-term business opportunities.
• Define evaluation goals and customer success criteria while positioning our solutions against competing alternatives.
• Exceptionally knowledge of the Electronic Design industry, its products and competitive landscape
• Ability to understand and clearly communicate Altium's Agile Teams goals and objectives
• Possess ability to be empathetic, understand specific customer requirements, how they think, understand what their goals are, why an ECAD Data Management solution is important to their business, and perform a product value pitch to address their specific needs
• Be proactive and leverage ECAD-specific technical expertise, project management and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in ECAD presales engagements, customer success, account management, and/or a client-facing role in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
• Experience working in an ECAD presales role or related position
• Languages: You need to speak English & German at the fluent level (at least C1) + one other Europe languages (e.g. Italian, French, Turkish, etc.)
• Experience with ECAD tools, including schematic and PCB design, project data management, library/component management, PLM integration, MCAD Collaboration, process definition and management, workflows and signal integrity analysis
• Ability to engage customers at the business level to drivealignment, and execution of ECAD strategy
• Ability to be highly effective in a team and matrix management organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent degree and experience
• Ability to travel 30%

Additional Information

Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase ofelectronicsdevelopment.

From startups to world's technology giants,our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.