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# Senior Applications Engineer

- **Company:** Llc (detroit)
- **Location:** Wixom, MI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Systems Engineering, Systems Integration
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c766a0faa6ac05ad

## About the Role

* 8-15 years of engineering experience with meaningful time on the product/customer side - you've been the person the customer calls, not just the person who builds
 * Background in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering; experience with electromechanical or complex assembled products strongly preferred
 * Comfortable in DFM conversations - you can tell a customer what's not manufacturable and why, and offer a better path forward without losing the relationship
 * Experience reading and interpreting CAD, BOMs, and technical design packages
 * Worked in or with contract manufacturers, Tier 1/2 suppliers, or product development environments
 * Familiar with the pace and ambiguity of early-stage or scaling hardware companies - you don't need a perfect spec to get started
 * Strong communicator: equally effective in a technical design review and an executive business conversation

What Makes You Different

 * You think in systems, not just parts - you understand how design decisions upstream affect manufacturability, cost, and schedule downstream
 * You ask the uncomfortable question early instead of absorbing the problem late
 * You treat customer relationships as long-term partnerships, not transactions
 * You're organized enough to manage multiple customers in parallel without dropping the ball
 * You take pride in being the person who makes complex things happen smoothly

## Description

Kinetyc sits at the intersection of advanced manufacturing and deep product engineering - and our customers are building some of the most technically complex end products in their respective markets. This role exists because our customers need more than a contract manufacturer. They need a technical partner who understands their product, anticipates their engineering challenges, and can translate between their design intent and our manufacturing reality - fluently, confidently, and quickly.
What You'll Own

 * Primary technical relationship with new and existing customers from onboarding through production
 * Lead customer engineering conversations - requirements gathering, DFM feedback, systems integration discussions, and technical risk identification
 * Bridge between customer product design and Kinetyc manufacturing engineering - translating CAD, BOM, and design packages into executable manufacturing plans
 * Support the 30-day new customer launch process as the technical lead
 * Identify and communicate gaps between customer expectations and Kinetyc capabilities - early, clearly, and with proposed solutions
 * Contribute to FLEXembly and innovation initiatives where customer insight drives product development opportunities
 * Represent Kinetyc's technical capability in customer-facing settings - presentations, site visits, design reviews


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