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Applications Engineering Manager (West Coast)
$140K–$200K
US-West Coast (remote) · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in applications engineering, systems integration, or automation engineering; 2+ years in people management or team leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline—or equivalent hands-on experience.
About the job
Leads a West Coast team of Applications Engineers while providing hands-on industrial robotics integration, customer support, and technical oversight.
What you'll do
- Manage, coach, and plan workloads for a territory-based team of Applications Engineers.
- Own territory customer engagements, including pre-sales support, escalations, and post-install success.
- Review solution designs and lead complex integrations, commissioning, and continuous-improvement standards.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on applications engineering, systems integration, or automation engineering experience.
- 2+ years of people management or team lead experience.
- Fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software skills, including PLC programming and ladder logic, pneumatics, DC power systems, robot programming, Python scripting, and CAD.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline—or equivalent hands-on experience.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with collaborative robots (UR, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB, or similar).
- Experience scaling an applications engineering or field engineering function.
Pay
$140,000 to $200,000 USD (base salary); $140K – $180K USD (compensation; posting labels it “Compensation,” not base salary or total pay)
Tools
PLC programming, ladder logic, pneumatics, DC power systems, robot programming, Python, CAD
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