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

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 HVM.
• Self-motivated and willing to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to make routine decisions with general direction provided by department Manager.
• Effective public speaking and presentation skills.
• Disciplined in working remotely.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or related discipline preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in engineering activities related to PCB manufacturing preferred.
• Minimum level experience of electrical design performance and signal integrity (Impedance, insertion loss).
• Intermediate level skills for drawing / blueprint interpretation ski