Electronicsearch

New Job Opportunity: Field Applications Engineer (FAE) – Itasca, IL

Contact: Steve Eddington      Ref: 8105

Description:

Our client is a leading U.S. manufacturer of high-performance antennas for wireless communications, and is seeking an experienced Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to provide technical sales support for their customers, distribution partners, and sales team.

Reporting to the VP of Sales, the Field Applications Engineer serves as the technical bridge between customers and the company’s Engineering, Product Management, and Sales organizations. This role focuses on understanding customer application requirements, recommending optimal antenna solutions, supporting product evaluations, and helping customers successfully integrate company products into their wireless systems.

The ideal candidate combines strong RF engineering knowledge with excellent communication skills and enjoys working directly with customers to solve challenging technical problems.

Customer Technical Support:

• Serve as the primary technical resource for customers, distributors, and the sales team.
• Understand customer system requirements and recommend appropriate antenna solutions.
• Support customers throughout product evaluation, design, testing, and deployment.
• Troubleshoot antenna performance and installation issues in collaboration with Engineering.
• Provide timely technical responses to customer inquiries.

Application Engineering:

• Analyze customer applications and recommend standard products or coordinate custom antenna solutions with Engineering.
• Provide guidance to customers with antenna placement, installation, grounding, cable selection, and RF performance optimization.
• Support customer validation testing and provide technical recommendations.

Sales Support:

• Partner with all geographic Sales Managers and distributors during customer visits and technical presentations.
• Deliver technical product demonstrations and application training.
• Participate in customer design reviews and specification discussions.
• Help identify opportunities for new products and emerging applications.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Act as the technical liaison between customers and company Engineering.
• Provide customer feedback to Engineering and Product Management to influence future product development.
• Collaborate with Marketing to develop technical literature, application notes, white papers, and training materials.

Product & Market Expertise:

• Maintain expert knowledge of the company’s antenna portfolio.
• Stay current on wireless technologies including 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi, GNSS, Public Safety, FirstNet, IoT, Private LTE.
• Monitor competitive products and industry trends.
• Attend and support industry conferences and customer events.

Travel:

• Travel to customer sites, distributor locations, trade shows, and company facilities as required (approximately 30–40%, including overnight travel).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5–10 years of experience in RF, wireless communications, antenna systems, or field applications engineering.
• Working knowledge of antenna theory, RF propagation, cable loss, impedance matching, and wireless system design.
• Experience supporting customers in technical sales environments.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical audiences.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using RF test equipment (network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, etc.) is preferred.

Compensation: Based on Experience

Email resume to resume@electronicsearch.com and put Ref# 8105 in the subject line.