Senior Applications Engineer

About the role

This role exists because our customers need a technical partner who understands their product, anticipates their engineering challenges, and can translate between their design intent and our manufacturing reality.

Responsibilities

• Primary technical relationship with new and existing customers from onboarding through production
• Lead customer engineering conversations — requirements gathering, DFM feedback, systems integration discussions, and technical risk identification
• Bridge between customer product design and Kinetyc manufacturing engineering — translating CAD, BOM, and design packages into executable manufacturing plans
• Support the 30-day new customer launch process as the technical lead
• Identify and communicate gaps between customer expectations and Kinetyc capabilities — early, clearly, and with proposed solutions
• Contribute to FLEXembly™ and innovation initiatives where customer insight drives product development opportunities
• Represent Kinetyc’s technical capability in customer-facing settings — presentations, site visits, design reviews

Requirements

• 8–15 years of engineering experience with meaningful time on the product/customer side
• Background in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering; experience with electromechanical or complex assembled products
• Comfortable in DFM conversations — you can tell a customer what’s not manufacturable and why, and offer a better path forward without losing the relationship
• Experience reading and interpreting CAD, BOMs, and technical design packages
• Familiar with the pace and ambiguity of early-stage or scaling hardware companies — you don’t need a perfect spec to get started
• Strong communicator: equally effective in a technical design review and an executive business conversation

Qualifications

• Organized enough to manage multiple customers in parallel without dropping the ball
• Treat customer relationships as long-term partnerships, not transactions

Skills

• System thinking
• Early problem identification and communication
• Customer-centric approach

Benefits

• Adaptive manufacturing partner to companies building the hard things
• Discipline of Detroit manufacturing and agility of a startup
• Mission to make the impossible possible

Pay

Negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time position.