Senior Field Applications Engineer

TTM Technologies , Inc. – Publicly Traded US Company, NASDAQ (TTMI) – Top-5 Global Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer
About TTM

TTM Technologies , Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of technology products, including mission systems, radio frequency (“RF”) components, RF microwave/microelectronic assemblies, and technologically advanced printed circuit boards (“PCB”s). TTM stands for time-to-market, representing how TTM's time-critical, one-stop design, engineering and manufacturing services enable customers to reduce the time required to develop new products and bring them to market.

Additional information can be found at www.ttm.com

*****Ideal candidate must reside in California*****
Scope:

The Senior Field Applications Engineer is responsible for technical support for customers PCB designers and manufacturing groups. This position will interface with customers PCB designers early-on in the design cycle and provide feedback on routing and layout techniques, Signal Integrity performance, cost trade-off analysis of PCB layer stack-up, material selection process, and other electrical and mechanical requirements based on understanding of customer’s end product application.
Duties and Responsibilities:

- Educate customer designers and technologist on Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Value (DFV).
- Reduce customers’ design cycle time by facilitating/eliminating problem disposition between TTM’s pre-production engineering groups and the customer.

- Improve the quality and completeness of design packages coming from the customer and help them by identifying design problems related to manufacturability and reliability test.

- Update customer designers and manufacturing groups on TTM capabilities. Set roadmap and technology direction through formal customer presentations.

- Thorough understanding of TTM manufacturing capabilities and technologies to support QTA/NPI/High Volume Manufacturing; North America and Asia Pacific solutions.

- Provide TTM manufacturing facilities with insight into future customer needs and technology requirements. Identify and communicate roadmap and capability gaps. Facilitate customer technical needs with engineering and operations.

- Analyze customer designs for manufacturability, controlled impedance, and specification improvements.

- Establish technical contacts between customer and TTM to drive improved lines of technical communications and increased depth of relationships.

- Assist the pre-production teams thru the DFM/TQ process in getting “on hold” issues addressed at the customer site expeditiously.

- Assist the Sales Account Managers in increasing customer revenue through superior technical support and service.

- Travel for customer sight visits to support issues, and/or, key programs as required.

- Create and conduct technical capability presentations in conjunction with the sales team.

- Facilitate customer technical needs with engineering and operations. This position will interface regularly with TTM’s Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering departments, and Operations, and it is essential that the employee be able to effectively balance the communication channels between these departments.

- This position will interface regularly with TTM’s Sales, Development, Pre-Production Engineering departments, and Operations, and it is essential that the employee be able to effectively balance the communication channels between these departments.

Essential Skills and Knowledge:

- Strong printed circuit engineering background and knowledge of entire PCB manufacturing process including; process flows, individual processing steps, and tooling.

- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to work well with customers design groups.

- Ability to make decisions influencing quality of PCB designs coming from strategic customers to enable high yielding product from TTM North America and Asia Pacific sites while transitioning from QTA/NPI to HV