Applications Specialist

Cohu • San Diego, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Acts as the technical bridge between a sales team and its customers, ensuring products and/or software are effectively customized, installed, and supported. Analyzes client needs, provides pre/post-sales technical support, conducts product demonstrations, and creates custom technical solutions. Proposes and evaluates feasibility and risk of new concepts using first-principles physics and empirical modeling. Closely coordinates activities with the Product Marketing Manager and Product Manager to align on targeted approach and strategy for specific markets, customers and applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, control engineering or a related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of direct design experience or application support of complex mechatronic systems, ideally in semiconductor backend capital equipment.
• Experience with technical standards and industrial development processes.
• Understanding and/or working experience with thermal systems, motion control, control systems, automation robotics, semiconductor manufacturing processes around packaging and test.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of time as required for projects and customer support.
• Willingness to work five days a week (with some flexibility) on-site at our San Diego (Rancho Bernardo) location.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• MSc, MEng, etc. desired
• Chinese a plus.

Responsibilities

• Present technical solutions in collaboration with customers and stakeholders.
• Participate in and help resolve system-level issues in collaboration with internal engineering resources, customers and stakeholders.
• Identify gaps in product capabilities to align to customer and market needs.
• Act as a technical interface to internal departments as well as customers and external partners.
• Definition and alignment of system requirements in close collaboration with engineering teams.
• Understand how product software works in delivering the overall technical solution for market needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level