Sales and Applications Engineer

NOX METALS•Detroit, MI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Nox Metals is a technology company in Detroit supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible. We need a Sales and Applications Engineer to be the technical backbone of every customer relationship. The engineer who can read the drawing, walk the customer's floor, run the nest, defend the quote, and translate every detail into a clean job our factory can ship. You sit between the customer, the sales team, and operations, and you make all three of them better. Nox Metals is an employer with real opportunity for long term career growth, this is a place to build a career, not just hold a job.

Requirements

3 to 5+ years of applications engineering, technical sales, sales engineering, or comparable customer-facing technical experience in metals, machining, or manufacturing
Mechanical, manufacturing, or comparable engineering degree or equivalent capability
Strong technical fluency, you can read a drawing, GD&T, talk alloys, tempers, tolerances, and lead times like an engineer who has been on the floor
Comfortable on a customer's shop floor, you can stand at a CNC, talk to the operator and the buyer, and earn trust before you ever quote a part
Skilled at quoting, estimating, and nesting, every line item priced right, every assumption documented
Cracked with AI tools, modern software, CRM and quoting systems, you live in the stack and you make it faster every week
Tightly partnered with software teams in past roles, comfortable writing specs, filing tickets, and shaping the tools you use
A team player with a good attitude, you make the company better for everyone around you
High attention to quality, every quote, every job, every cert, every customer interaction
Always thinking about how to make processes better, you do not accept "this is how we have always done it"
Absolutely customer obsessed, you carry every customer's deadline like it is your own
User obsessed, you sit with our internal sales and operations teams too, watch them work, and build the workflows that make them faster
Someone who takes ownership, if it is technical and customer-facing, it is your responsibility
Precise under pressure and reliable, customers count on the prices and dates you commit to
Organized enough to juggle complex accounts, active quotes, and live customer programs without dropping one
Committed to safety, you follow every protocol on every floor and hold our team to the same standard
High agency, you handle big items alone and ask for help when needed
Low ego, you walk the floor, you crawl into machines, you do the unglamorous work because it needs to get done
Able to travel and spend real time in the field, on customer floors, in shops
Not afraid to work outside normal hours when America demands it
Never says "that's not my job"

Nice To Haves

Background applying metals, aluminum, or aerospace and defense components in customer programs
Experience with WAYNE-style nesting, quoting, or estimating tools
CNC programming, machining, or shop floor experience earlier in career
Experience inside aerospace or defense quoting environments, AS9100, DFARS, AMS, ASTM
Forklift and/or overhead crane certification
Comfortable using AI tools to work faster and smarter

Responsibilities

Partner with Outside Sales as the technical lead on complex accounts, travel to customer sites, walk shop floors, sit in design reviews
Partner with Inside Sales on complex quotes, translate drawings, specs, and POs into clean jobs in NOX NEST and accurate quotes in WAYNE
Run nests, validate scrap, model cycle times, and price the work like an engineer who knows what the floor can actually do
Read customer drawings, GD&T, and specs and turn them into precise material, tolerance, and process requirements
Translate customer requirements into clean jobs, alloy, temper, thickness, tolerances, cert requirements, packaging, dock dates, all of it
Be the customer's go-to engineer, you handle the technical questions Sales cannot, on a call, in an email, or on their shop floor
Lead first article runs, complex quoting exercises, and new program qualifications
Capture every customer requirement, every quote, every win, every loss as structured data in our systems, the data is the moat
Bring the customer's voice back to operations, supply chain, software, and quality every single day
Partner with software and engineering to push for product improvements that win more business, file tickets, write specs, ship better tools
Always ask questions, never guess when something is unclear
Look at every quote, every customer, every workflow and figure out how to make it better
Work safely on every customer floor and our floor, hold yourself to the same standard we hold our team to