Application Development Engineer (f/m/x)

ZEISS

Job Description

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.


In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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The Application Development Engineer strives to become world leader in applications in their market segment, becoming the go-to expert in the world for the usage of related instruments to solve leading and important problems in the semiconductor market segment

  • Entertain network of / collaborations with application partners and lighthouse customers

  • Screen market (sub-)segment for application trends and emerging customer needs

  • Support MRD development by contributing requirements from apps perspective

  • Support and challenge product development by providing segment-specific use cases and verify these in Beta-tests

  • Establish sales knowledge about (sub-)segment specific target applications and workflows

  • work out application proofs to support product positioning and create segment specific application content for sales- and marketing collatorals

  • Provide level 4 sales- and strategic customer support

  • Training of demo labs Deliverables

  • Validated reports on application trends

  • Job-to-be-done descriptions and use cases for MRD and Beta test

  • Application content for sales trainings, level 1-3 presentations and sales collaterals

  • Best demo practices sharing between the SSC's/demo labs, segment specific demo approaches


  • We define strategy of which market segments to focus on, and together with the product management team we define solution roadmaps and support their execution in the R&D teams, and we guide the sales organization with the best marketing positioning for existing products

  • In your role as the Application Development Engineer in the business sector electronics, you are responsible for the support of MRD development and establishing sales knowledge about the segment

  • You are the expert within the Microscopy team that understands the customer language and values

  • Understand and describe the customer's job-to-be-done within the electronics industry

  • Contribute to relevant application reports and trends

  • Develop collaboration with key customers

  • Drive content generation for internal training on new solutions, sales materials, and marketing campaigns

  • Implement sales trainings

  • Monitor performance of solution portfolio and derive / drive implementation of corrective actions

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