Field Application Engineer – FAE

MBC Talent Connections; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

MBC Talent Connections is recruiting for a Field Application Engineer (FAE) in San Jose, CA. The role links production facilities with customer engineering teams, combining design support with strong customer-facing engagement.

Ideal candidates have early-career engineering backgrounds in FAE, front-end, process, or quality roles, and can travel to customer sites for collaboration and technical discussions. This is a full-time, on-site position.

Qualifications

• Experience in field applications, front-end engineering, process engineering, or quality engineering.
• Strong customer-facing and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide DFM and stack-up support for new and existing customer designs.
• Participate in design reviews prior to release and help define drawing notes.
• Implement industry standards and customer-specific specification requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between internal teams and customers.
• Attend customer meetings and provide technical Q&A support.
• Travel to customer sites for discussions, reviews, and issue resolution.
• Create and deliver technical capability presentations with the sales team.
• Update customers on production capabilities and roadmaps.
• Support factory investigations of quality issues and travel to locations as needed.
• Collaborate with account managers to grow customer revenue through technical support.

Skills

DFM knowledge

Design reviews

Customer liaison

Technical presentations

Job description

Field Application Engineer –FAE

San Jose, California | $150,000

Overview

A leading electronics manufacturer is looking for a Junior Field Application Engineer to act as the technical link between its production facilities and customer engineering teams. This is a customer-facing, collaborative role combining technical expertise with relationship management across design, quality, and manufacturing functions.

Responsibilities

Design & Engineering Support

• Provide DFM (Design for Manufacturability) and stack-up support for new and existing customer designs
• Participate in design reviews prior to release and help define drawing notes to meet specific design and manufacturing requirements
• Implement industry standards and customer-specific specification requirements

Customer Engagement

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between internal production/engineering groups and customers
• Attend scheduled customer meetings and provide technical Q&A support
• Travel to customer sites to support technical discussions, program reviews, and issue resolution
• Create and deliver technical capability presentations in partnership with the sales team

Internal Collaboration

• Communicate customer technology needs and roadmap gaps to internal teams
• Update customers on production capabilities and facility technology roadmaps
• Support factory investigations of quality issues as they arise
• Travel to factory locations to support customer visits and audits
• Collaborate with account managers to grow customer revenue through technical support

Candidate Profile

This role is ideal for an early-career engineer looking to grow in a customer-facing technical capacity. Strong candidates will come from a background in field applications, front-end engineering, process engineering, or quality engineering — with field application experience being the strongest fit.