The truth is, it really is a sales job combined with technical support. I've been an application engineer for five years now, and I really like the style of work. Applications is also a good road to non-engineering career-path options in high-tech companies if at some point you decide you need a break from the technology side. After spending a few years doing this, I could never go back to a straight design engineering job. But, you can't be a wallflower and succeed at it.Ĭan anyone explain about a corporate application engineer job profile?Īpplications is one of the most interesting types of engineering as you get to work on a wide variety of projects with a wide range of functional groups (design, manufacturing, marketing, business). And it's a far more upwardly mobile position than strictly pure design. It's probably more an art than a science. My opinion is that it is hands down the most interesting of all. I've done both pure design engineering (both in the private sector and advanced research in the public sector) and applications engineering. Often apps engineers are the 'responsible engineers' for projects due to their primary role of 'quoting' or providing technical proposals. Instead, you provide potential customers with technical proposals, usually detailing product features and their associated cost. As an apps engineer, you would almost never solicit sales to an external customer. It's developing a mathematical routine and then automating so that it can become a tool to facilitate sales.Īs was mentioned, apps engineering is also called inside sales engineer. A good company with a good group of engineers isn't sitting around doing math for math's sake. I've worked as an Apps engineer with different companies in both HVACR and Oil and Gas. The level of math required is both company and industry specific. Is this comparable to other jobs I qualify for with my BS in mechanical engineering? The only values I found showed similar starting salaries but low raise oppurtunities. I believe the most important question I had about this position is salary. The description of this job matches nearly perfectly with a position I have been offered.
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