Application Engineer
Job Summary
The Application Engineer will provide comprehensive technical support for motion-control and robotic systems. This role involves both pre-sales technical proposals and post-sales implementation, including on-site installation and debugging. You will work closely with customers to optimize product solutions and ensure high performance in manufacturing environments.
Responsibilities
- Conducting product demonstrations and technical presentations.
- Performing technical reviews and finalizing specifications.
- Executing on-site product installation, debugging, and verification.
- Leading evaluation tests at customer sites.
- Collaborating with headquarters on technical issues.
Required Skills
- Experience in embedded systems for industrial automation.
- Knowledge of sensors, switches, relays, and actuators.
- Problem-solving and technical creativity.
- Business-level English (TOEIC 735+).
- Fluent Japanese (N1).
Job Details
### Job Description
You will be responsible for providing technical support in both pre-sales activities and on-site support after product implementation. Your role is to help customers understand our products and solutions, and to offer optimal proposals and implementation assistance based on their technical needs.
▼ Technical Proposals (Pre-Sales):
Work closely with the sales team to conduct product demonstrations and presentations based on customer requirements; propose optimal solutions for high-value use cases; perform technical reviews and assist in finalizing specifications.
▼ Implementation & Technical Support (Post-Sales):
Carry out on-site product installation, debugging, and performance verification; lead evaluation tests at customer sites (DVT/ATP); collaborate with field service teams and engineers at headquarters to address technical issues.
### Working Hours
9:00-17:30 Monday to Friday
### Job Requirements
• Experience in building embedded systems for Production Equipment such as mechatronic systems/robotic automation/semiconductor industry/machine tending automation.
• Understanding of electronic components such as sensors, switches, relays, actuators, etc.
• Broad application of principles, theories, concepts, and techniques used in the applicable technical or business discipline and working knowledge of interrelated fields.
• Develops resolutions to diverse and complex problems very often requiring creativity.
• Frequent inter-organizational and external customer contacts. May represent the organization on projects and interface with customers.
• Able to travel regionally and internationally as required.
### Language Requirements
• English Level: Business Conversation Level (TOEIC 735-860)
• Japanese Level: Fluent (JLPT Level 1 or N1)
### Benefits & Employment Details
• Health insurance, Employees' pension insurance, Employment insurance, Workers' compensation insurance.
• Holidays: Five-Day Workweek (Sat and Sun off), Public Holidays off, 10~20 Days of Paid Leave.
• Contract Period: Permanent Position.
• Work location: Head Office in Shin-Yokohama (Automation lab scheduled for Yokohama Station East Exit in November 2025).
• Smoking prohibited in principle at the workplace (designated smoking areas available).