Solution & Application Engineer-USA

Kinco Automation; California (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinco Automation is expanding into the U.S. market and building its local team from the ground up. The company seeks a Solution & Application Engineer to work closely with sales, customers, and partners to grow its factory automation business.

The role focuses on pre-sales support, solution design, and hands-on application engineering for servo drives, motors, PLCs, HMIs, and motion control systems. Strong communication and troubleshooting skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in factory automation or motion control environments.
• Customer-facing experience (FAE, application engineer, technical sales, controls engineer).
• Must have permanent work authorization in the United States and no visa sponsorship required.

Responsibilities

• Support sales with pre-sales technical consulting, solution design, and customer demos.
• Collaborate with OEMs, system integrators, distributors, and end users.
• Provide application support for servo drives, motors, PLCs, HMIs, and motion control systems.
• Support customer evaluations, pilot projects, and first-machine builds.
• Assist with partner training and distributor technical enablement.
• Act as a technical bridge between U.S. customers and global R&D teams.
• Other tasks assigned by supervisors.

Skills

Factory automation

Motion control

PLC

Servo systems

Job description

KINCO Automation is expanding into the U.S. market and building its local team from the ground up. We are looking for a Solution & Application Engineer to work closely with sales, customers, and partners to grow our factory automation business.

Responsibilities

• Support sales with pre-sales technical consulting, solution design, and customer demos
• Work with OEMs, system integrators, distributors, and end users
• Provide application support for servo drives, motors, PLCs, HMIs, and motion control systems
• Support customer evaluations, pilot projects, and first-machine builds
• Assist with partner training and distributor technical enablement
• Act as a technical bridge between U.S. customers and global R&D teams
• Other tasks assigned by supervisors

Requirements

• Background in factory automation, motion control, PLC, servo systems
• Experience in customer-facing roles (FAE, application engineer, technical sales, controls engineer)
• Strong communication skills and hands-on troubleshooting ability
• Comfortable working in an early-stage, fast-growing U.S. organization
• This role does not provide sponsorship for any temporary work visas, including H-1B, OPT, TN, etc. All applicants must already hold unrestricted permanent work authorization within the United States upon employment

Preferred Qualifications:

Fluent written and verbal Mandarin Chinese is a plus, to support daily communication with China headquarters, interpret Chinese technical documents and coordinate with domestic R&D team