Field Applications Engineer — Live Demos & Debugging

Salience Labs; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salience Labs is seeking a highly capable technical professional to own the full client conversation from presales qualification to live demos and design reviews, at the client's site or our office with hardware in hand. You will build test setups, run demos, and perform failure analysis, feeding learnings back to product, engineering, and sales.

The role demands hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, optics, and photonics, plus the ability to engage senior engineers and business leaders

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a customer facing technical role such as Field Applications Engineer or Systems Engineer.
• Strong grasp of high-speed interfaces and system-level hardware bring-up workflows.
• Hands-on work with test setups, live demos, and failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own every technical conversation with the client across qualification, demos, and design reviews.
• Show, live, how our switch fits the client's setup.
• Build and run test setups and demos to prove it.
• Debug on the spot when a demo doesn't go to plan.
• Drive failure analysis to root cause.
• Turn client feedback into input for product, engineering, and sales.
• Be the technical thread through the entire sales cycle.
• Command a room of senior engineers and executives with credibility.

Skills

Hardware

Optics

Photonics

Customer-facing

Debugging

Presales

Job description

Salience Labs is seeking a highly capable technical professional to own the full client conversation from presales qualification to live demos and design reviews, at the client's site or our office with hardware in hand. You will build test setups, run demos, and perform failure analysis, feeding learnings back to product, engineering, and sales.

The role demands hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, optics, and photonics, plus the ability to engage senior engineers and business leaders