Senior Field Applications Engineer

TTM; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TTM Technologies, Inc. in California seeks a Senior Field Applications Engineer to provide hands-on technical support to PCB designers and manufacturing teams during early design cycles.

You will guide routing, layout techniques, signal integrity, and cost trade-off analysis to optimize designs for manufacturability. The role requires close collaboration with engineering and operations, presenting roadmaps and capabilities, and traveling for customer engagements as needed.

Qualifications

• Active engagement with PCB designers and manufacturing teams.
• Knowledge of Design for Manufacture and Design for Value.
• Experience with signal integrity and layout techniques.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to customers' PCB designers and TTM teams.
• Educate customers on DFM/DFV and manufacturability issues.
• Update customers on capabilities and technology roadmaps.
• Assist pre-production through DFM/TQ processes and issue resolution.
• Support sales by delivering high-quality technical assistance.

Skills

PCB design knowledge

Signal Integrity

DFM/DFV

Customer-facing

Job description

TTM Technologies, Inc. - Publicly Traded US Company, NASDAQ (TTMI) - Top-5 Global Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer

About TTM

TTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of technology products, including mission systems, radio frequency ("RF") components, RF microwave/microelectronic assemblies, and technologically advanced printed circuit boards ("PCB"s). TTM stands for time-to-market, representing how TTM's time-critical, one-stop design, engineering and manufacturing services enable customers to reduce the time required to develop new products and bring them to market.

Additional information can be found at www.ttm.com

*****Ideal candidate must reside in California*****

Scope:

The Senior Field Applications Engineer is responsible for technical support for customers PCB designers and manufacturing groups. This position will interface with customers PCB designers early-on in the design cycle and provide feedback on routing and layout techniques, Signal Integrity performance, cost trade-off analysis of PCB layer stack-up, material selection process, and other electrical and mechanical requirements based on understanding of customer’s end product application.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Educate customer designers and technologist on Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Value (DFV).
  • Reduce customers’ design cycle time by facilitating/eliminating problem disposition between TTM’s pre-production engineering groups and the customer.
  • Improve the quality and completeness of design packages coming from the customer and help them by identifying design problems related to manufacturability and reliability test.
• Update customer designers and manufacturing groups on TTM capabilities. Set roadmap and technology direction through formal customer presentations.
• Thorough understanding of TTM manufacturing capabilities and technologies to support QTA/NPI/High Volume Manufacturing; North America and Asia Pacific solutions.
• Provide TTM manufacturing facilities with insight into future customer needs and technology requirements. Identify and communicate roadmap and capability gaps. Facilitate customer technical needs with engineering and operations.
• Analyze customer designs for manufacturability, controlled impedance, and specification improvements.
• Establish technical contacts between customer and TTM to drive improved lines of technical communications and increased depth of relationships.
• Assist the pre-production teams thru the DFM/TQ process in getting on hold issues addressed at the customer site expeditiously.
• Assist the Sales Account Managers in increasing customer revenue through superior technical support and service.
• Travel for customer sight visits to support issues, and/or, key programs as required.