Applications Engineer

About the Role

The Applications Engineer serves as a technical liaison between Engineering, Sales, and customers. This role involves understanding customer measurement applications, assisting with solution selection, defining requirements for new products, and supporting technical inquiries.

Key Responsibilities

• Support technical interactions between current and potential customers, Engineering, and Sales.
• Review customer measurement applications and assist with the selection and application of accelerometers, pressure sensors, force sensors, and associated instrumentation.
• Prepare written technical explanations, data analyses, application notes, test reports, and engineering documentation for internal and external customers.
• Conduct laboratory testing, sensor evaluation, troubleshooting, and data analysis.
• Assist with the development of test setups and execution of engineering evaluations.
• Provide technical updates to management and other team members regarding customer inquiries, New Product Requests (NPRs), prototype development, testing results, and customer feedback.
• Prepare operating guides, quick-start guides, technical articles, product information, sales presentations, and case studies.
• Assist with the development of product requirements and New Product Requests based on customer needs and technical feasibility.
• Coordinate with Design Engineering during the development and evaluation of new or modified sensor products.
• Conduct market research on competitive products and emerging technologies and prepare product comparison matrices to support Sales and Engineering.
• Analyze existing applications and markets to identify potential customers and new applications for Dytran products.
• Participate in customer meetings, product demonstrations, trade shows, and technical conferences.
• Develop increasing technical ownership of customer applications and Dytran sensor technologies as experience is gained.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Relevant internships, co-op experience, university projects, laboratory experience, or engineering team activities are welcome.
• Fundamental understanding of mechanical and/or electrical engineering principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to apply engineering fundamentals to real-world technical problems.
• Ability to interpret technical specifications, drawings, test data, and other engineering information.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly in both written and verbal form.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on engineering and laboratory environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and common engineering software tools.
• Ability to work onsite at the Dytran facility in Chatsworth, CA.
• U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, political asylee, or refugee).
• Legally authorized to work in the United States full-time without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Coursework, internship, project, or laboratory experience involving vibration, dynamics, instrumentation, signal processing, data acquisition, controls, electronics, or mechanical testing.
• Familiarity with accelerometers, pressure sensors, force sensors, strain gauges, or other measurement technologies.
• Experience with oscilloscopes, data acquisition systems, signal generators, multimeters, shakers, or other laboratory test equipment.
• Familiarity with MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW, SolidWorks, or similar engineering and analysis tools.
• Experience with engineering drawings, CAD models, or basic mechanical design.
• Internship or project experience in aerospace, automotive, defense, manufacturing, test and measurement, or instrumentation.
• Interest in customer-facing engineering and technical problem-solving.

Personal Skills

• Strong technical curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies and applications.
• Ability to interface professionally with individuals across different technical disciplines and levels of experience.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills with an interest in understanding and solving customer problems.
• Ability to explain technical subjects clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple technical assignments and priorities.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a cross-functional engineering team.

Compensation

The pay range for this position is $80,000 to $85,000 annually plus 10% bonus.

Featured Benefits

• Vacation and Paid Sick Leave in accordance with California law.
• 11 paid holidays and two volunteer days.
• 401(k) matching up to 5% of deferrals with immediate vesting.
• Medical and dental plans.
• Tuition reimbursement after six months of employment.