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Fortive

Makes industrial tools and healthcare systems

Application Engineer

Board & Electronics DesignPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in electronic engineering, electrical engineering, automation, instrumentation, optical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related science or engineering discipline.
  • At least 10 years of experience in hardware research and development, application engineering, product development, or customization projects.
  • Strong hardware design skills, including circuit principles, schematic design, component selection, debugging, testing, and failure analysis; ability to independently complete hardware solution design and technical feasibility assessments.
  • At least two of the following capabilities: industrial electrical testing and parameter adjustment; optical-path design, optoelectronic component selection, and error analysis; mechanical structure, assembly, heat dissipation, and protection design; or evaluation of integrated electrical, optical, and mechanical solutions.
  • Ability to analyze customer requirements and translate application scenarios into actionable technical solutions.
  • Experience delivering complete projects, including explaining product objectives, solution choices, key technical challenges, validation methods, and results.
  • Ability to drive projects, collaborate across departments, and communicate with customers while balancing technical quality, schedule, cost, and risk.
  • Ability to quickly understand and learn company products.
  • Ability to travel nationwide as required, including a certain frequency of travel.

Responsibilities

  • Develop customized products and perform secondary development of existing products, primarily handling hardware solution design, circuit design, component selection, debugging, and validation; these tasks comprise approximately 70% of the role.
  • Participate in integrated solution design for product circuits, optical paths, and overall mechanical structures; coordinate resolution of cross-disciplinary electrical, optical, and mechanical issues to meet measurement accuracy, operating stability, industrial protection, and reliability requirements.
  • Engage with industrial business-to-business customers to understand and break down application scenarios and nonstandard requirements, convert them into clear technical solutions and development tasks, and assess feasibility, cost, schedule, and risk.
  • Drive customized projects from solution design and prototype production through performance validation and delivery; coordinate research and development, product, sales, supply-chain, and other teams, identify issues, and advance their resolution.
  • Provide product application and technical support to customers, sales, and presales teams, comprising approximately 30% of the role, including product selection advice, application solutions, problem diagnosis, testing and validation, and technical discussions.
  • Document customer needs, typical applications, and technical solutions; communicate industry pain points and product-improvement recommendations to support ongoing standard-product optimization.
  • Track technical trends and competitive developments in test and measurement, infrared temperature measurement, and related industrial applications; improve understanding of company products and customer industries.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with industrial test-and-measurement instruments, infrared temperature measurement, optoelectronic inspection, or industrial electrical products.
  • Experience with infrared temperature measurement products, thermal imaging, temperature measurement, optoelectronic inspection equipment, or industrial electronic measurement instruments.
  • Familiarity with instrument safety standards, metrology and calibration, electromagnetic compatibility, or industrial-product reliability requirements.
  • Experience with nonstandard customization, secondary development, or solving on-site application issues for business-to-business customers.

About the Company

Fortive

Makes industrial tools and healthcare systems

Fortive makes measurement instruments, workplace safety systems and healthcare equipment for industrial technicians, facility managers and hospitals. Its operating companies include Fluke, whose test tools support electrical maintenance, and Advanced Sterilization Products, which builds systems for sterilizing medical instruments. Its software tracks assets and clinical workflows, while its hardware measures equipment conditions and protects workers; customers pay for instruments, consumables, services and software subscriptions. Founded as an independent company in 2016 after separating from Danaher, Fortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Everett, WA
Founded
2016

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