Field Applications Engineer — PCB Design & DFM Expert

TTM Technologies, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading PCB manufacturer seeking a Field Applications Engineer to support customers' PCB design and manufacturing teams early in the design cycle, offering feedback on routing and layout, and conducting cost trade-offs for stack-ups and materials.

East Coast-based candidates are preferred; travel up to 25% to customer sites and collaborate across Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering and Operations to align on capabilities and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• 5–7+ years in PCB manufacturing engineering.
• Proficient with PCB CAM software and stack-up tools.

Responsibilities

• DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFV (Design for Value) support to customer engineering and design teams for new designs and existing design improvement with a focus on reducing customers design cycle time.
• Collaborate with customer designers to improve quality and completeness of their design packages and help them by identifying design problems related to manufacturability and reliability test.
• Support drawing reviews prior to design release and help architect drawing notes to support the specific design and manufacturing needs.
• Thorough knowledge of industry specification (IPC) requirements as well as customer developed specifications requirements.
• Update customer design and manufacturing groups on TTM capabilities and technology roadmap through formal presentations.
• Provide TTM manufacturing facilities insight into future customer needs, technology requirements and identify gaps in TTMs ability to support those future needs.

Skills

Public speaking

Strong communication

Customer relationship building

PCB manufacturing process knowledge

Self-motivated

Team collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

PCB CAM software

PCB stack-up tools

Blueprint interpretation

Job description

TTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading PCB manufacturer seeking a Field Applications Engineer to support customers' PCB design and manufacturing teams early in the design cycle, offering feedback on routing and layout, and conducting cost trade-offs for stack-ups and materials.

East Coast-based candidates are preferred; travel up to 25% to customer sites and collaborate across Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering and Operations to align on capabilities and roadmaps.