Customer Engineering Escalation

advantestcareers; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest seeks a Customer Engineer Escalation to join the Global Customer Service Teams for AAI-based accounts. You will coordinate account support, own escalation processes, and ensure timely communications with the customer team across NPI, production ramp, and sustaining activities.

The role emphasizes collaboration with sales, AE, and factory teams, delivering consistent engagement, account playbooks, and performance KPIs while elevating customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or related field experience is required.
• Experience in project management is preferred.
• Fluent in English.
• Travel will be required up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate account support activity for assigned AAI-based accounts with Sales, AE, and factory teams.
• Serve as the escalation point for production service matters and own PS support across NPI, ramp, and sustaining activities.
• Contribute to the account playbook and ensure clear communication of site activities and status; build trust with key customer contacts.
• Regularly review customer needs and drive customer satisfaction by aligning cross-functional resources.

Skills

Fluent in English

Education

Bachelor's degree or experience in a related field

Job description

The Customer Engineer Escalation position plays a critical role as a member of assigned Global Customer Service Teams for AAI-based accounts. The person taking on this role will be expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Advantest PS organization, business objectives, delivery processes, and support product offerings.

This position will be expected to work collaboratively with other members of the Field Service management team, Sales, Applications, factory teams, etc. and will represent AAI PS as the accountable focal point for the execution of PS responsibilities in assigned AAI accounts.

As a Customer Engineer Escalation, you will be responsible for coordinating the account support activity in their assigned AAI-based accounts. Some key elements of this objective will be the following: close collaboration with sales, AE, and factory to ensure alignment and “Customer Team” approach to managing their assigned accounts. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving the overall customer satisfaction (CX) of the assigned account.

As a member of the global support team, you will be a key contributor to the account playbook to ensure good understanding of customer needs, coordination of support activities, and communication of site activities and status. Regular reviews with key customer contacts to understand needs and establish trust.

Direct ownership and escalation point for all production service-related matters, ensuring timely engagement of appropriate resources and clear communications with customer and account team throughout the process of resolution and take full ownership and accountability in assigned accounts for PS support of NPI, product engineering, production ramp, and production sustaining activities in upstream and downstream environments.

The business objective of this position is to improve management and execution of customer support for assigned accounts through:

• Enhanced and consistent customer engagement, including regular customer review meetings.
• Improved alignment and collaboration with the entire customer team, including PS, Sales, SADM, Operations, R&D, etc.
• Transparent and consistent support delivery according to Account Playbooks and Account Management Plans
• Established and accurate reporting and KPIs

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or experience in a related field required.
• Experience in project management.
• Fluent in English.
• Travel will be required up to 20% <24 hours’ notice on travel may be experienced occasionally).

Preferred:

• Supporting ATE equipment, Advantest 93K experience an advantage.