Application Engineer

The position

Would you like to help make products and processes more durable and reliable?

We are currently looking for an application engineer for our Japanese team. You will be responsible for helping customers with all aspects of durability engineering and the use of nCode software. This extends to the application of digital signal processing, vibration analysis, and fatigue life prediction. This includes providing engineering technical support during the pre- and post-sales process, presenting formal training courses on durability and vibration, and providing engineering consulting services.

Primary responsibilities

You will help customers with all aspects of durability engineering and the use of nCode software.

Your daily work includes:

Customer-oriented activities:

- Investigate and understand customers’ durability analysis requirements.

- Demonstrate nCode durability engineering software to customers in pre-sales scenarios, highlighting solutions and benefits.

- Answer technical questions that customers have about durability and reliability.

- Provide technical responses to RFPs from existing and potential customers.

Support and service-oriented activities:

- Conduct training courses on durability engineering concepts and software.

- Provide consulting services for digital signal processing, vibration analysis, and fatigue life prediction.

- Provide post-sales technical support for nCode users via phone, email, and web.

Product-focused activities:

- Provide feedback to product management on future software functionality.

These responsibilities will initially focus on nCode durability analysis software products and will later expand into ReliaSoft reliability analysis products and related concepts.

Professional qualifications

- You must hold a Bachelor or Master’s degree in engineering (preferably mechanical, aerospace, civil, or industrial) or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

- Further, you must have 1 year engineering experience.

- Experience with nCode or ReliaSoft software is beneficial, but not required.

Personal skills

What we’d like to see in you:

- A passion for finding and promoting solutions to customers’ challenges.

- Demonstrated problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.

- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

- Interest in working in a commercial environment with ability to travel a substantial portion of the time as dictated by business needs.

- Self-motivated, self-directed, and possess strong organizational skills.

About Us

One Company – HBK

Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer (HBK) is a global leader in the fields of sensors, data acquisition, analytics and collaboration for various R&D, production and in-operation applications. Until the end of July 2020, the companies were known as Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik GmbH (HBM) and Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S respectively. HBK is part of Spectris Limited and employs around 3500 people worldwide. Our product eco system covers all layers from sensors, electronics, to software and collaboration. Our customers range from end users of the entire tool chain focusing on analytics and results in virtual testing, physical testing, and monitoring, to our OEM and system integrator partners and customers integrating our products into their own offering and solution. The product portfolio is as versatile and varied as our customer base covering many industries. We have engineering and production facilities in Germany, Denmark, UK, Portugal, USA and China and are represented in over 80 countries worldwide. We are proud to be one of the top three suppliers worldwide in our market segments served, thanks to our high-quality products and the commitment of our employees.