Application Engineer

Caged Tigers South Ltd; Newbury; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in RF/Microwave products is looking for an Application Engineer to support their sales team with technical demonstrations and product presentations. This role will require strong technical knowledge, communication skills, and the desire to engage with clients across the UK and Europe. Ideal candidates will have a background in engineering and experience within a technology-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a high-end technology company for at least 1-2 years.
• Ability to engage and convey technical information effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support sales team with technical demonstrations and presentations.
• Maintain technical knowledge of RF & Microwave products.
• Conduct internal training for the sales team.

Skills

Technical knowledge in RF/Microwave

Communication

Education

Graduate Engineer

Job description

Application Engineer - RF & Microwave

The Company

A privately owned and long established, well respected organisation based in the south of England.

Specialising in the supply of high end technology and leading edge RF/Microwave products. With an extensive range that covers components and sub-systems which are used in both the military/aerospace, automotive and commercial sectors.

The Role

The Application Engineer is responsible for supporting sales of RF & microwave products and system solutions. This will be achieved engaging with a highly trained sales team to support them with product demonstrations and technical presentations. This is a very important position within the team and can be the difference in winning and losing orders. The sharing of information internally and externally is key.

The candidate needs to have a strong technical knowledge in RF/Microwaveor electrical/electronic related subject.

This role is varied and an adaptive mind set is required to handle technical support from small components, PCB’s, systems, sub systems, test equipment and possibly turnkey systems.

This is a challenging role that requires communication at all levels both internally and externally to the business.

A willingness to travel is required, as the customer base could be spread across the UK and possibly Europe.

Primary Duties:

• Support the sales team in technical demonstrations and presentations
• Maintain and build technical knowledge for all RF & Microwave products within the companies portfolio.
• Regularly hold internal training exercises for the sales team.
• Engage regularly with principal suppliers.
• Stay up to speed with roadmaps
• Increase knowledge of new successes that can be shared
• Find out about new applications their products have been used in
• Find out about possible issues on products that may need to be rectified
• Developing high quality technical responses to present to the customer
• Follow up with the sales team after a demonstration
• Report back into the company with market information
• Look to continuously improve market and technology understanding.

The Person

Probably a graduate engineer who has been working well within a high-end technology company for at least 1-2 years. Will be driven, hardworking, and confident in his/her ability. A good listener with a social and likeable character. An educator who possesses the ability to share and not be tempted simply to tell people how much they know!

Interested?

In the first instance, please send a detailed resume to [e-mail], or contact directly for a confidential discussion on [phone].

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