Senior Field Applications Engineer - North America

TTM Technologies•Remote - California, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Field Applications Engineer - North America is responsible for technical support to strategic OEM customer PCB design, PCB manufacturing, and PCB development activities. This position will support advanced design activities of high reliability commercial customers requiring ultra HDI and uBGAs. Activity will include driving innovative solutions across a broad base set of product technologies up to including new product and process development.

Requirements

Have a thorough understanding of TTM manufacturing, design and value add capabilities to support QTA/NPI/Production Manufacturing.
Ability to establish contacts and build relationships with customers engineering groups to drive improved communication and partnership.
Strong engineering background and knowledge of entire PCB manufacturing process including; manufacturing flows, process engineering steps, and pre-production tooling needs.
Advance knowledge of HDI & uBGA technologies, along with small micro-via stacking.
Advance process engineering skills for development and IRAD activities.
PLCM implementation and execution for applicable IRAD and/or franchise program readiness.
Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to work well with customer design groups.
Effective public speaking and presentation skills.
Strong Project and Program management skills.
Self-motivated and willing to work with minimum supervision.
Bachelor Degree in Engineering or related discipline preferred
10+ years of experience in advance engineering activities related to PCB industry
Intermediate level skills using Valor or Genesis
Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Must comply with TTM Export Control Policies and Processors and all applicable laws including ITAR, EAR and OFAC including but not limited to: a) being able to identify ITAR product on the manufacturing floor and understand that access to these products and related technical data is restricted to only US Citizens and US Permanent Residents; b) recognition of Foreign Person visitors by badge differentiation; c) understand and follow authorization procedures for bringing foreign visitors into facilities (VAL); d) understand the Export and ITAR requirements for shipments leaving the US; e) manage vendor approvals for ITAR manufacturing and services.

Nice To Haves

Typically expects 10+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s; 10+ years of experience with a Master’s degree.

Responsibilities

Provide DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFV (Design for Value) support to customer engineering and design teams for new designs and existing design improvement
Support drawing reviews prior to design release and help architect drawing notes to support the specific design and manufacturing needs
Understand and work with customers to implement HDI/uBGA product specification requirements
Facilitate disposition of technical queries between TTM’s pre-production engineering groups at the site level and the customer
Update customer design and manufacturing groups on TTM capabilities and technology road map through formal presentations
Provide the manufacturing facilities insight into future customer needs, technology requirements and identify gaps in TTMs ability to support those future needs
Assist and coordinate with TTM pre-production to create controlled impedance stack-ups
Alignment with Strategic Account Managers in increasing customer revenue by providing technical support and service.
Travel to customer sites to support technical discussions, issues, and key programs as required.
Travel to TTM sites to support the design & manufacturing requirements for successful execution.
Create and conduct technical capability presentations.
Provide key technical inputs for annual Technology Road Mapping and TTM Strategic Planning.
This position will interface regularly with TTM’s Sales, Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Pre-Production Engineering departments, and Operations in different global time zones.