What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applications Support Engineer position at TA Instruments?
TA Instruments Applications Organization is comprised of highly skilled, motivated and customer focused professionals that are technical experts on TA’s product lines. As an Applications Engineer you’ll join a team of specialists that are committed to ensuring TA’s world-renowned support for our customers who utilize our scientific instrumentation. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple disciplines including; Sales, Service, Product Management, and Engineering supporting our customers both pre- and post-sale. Whether you are running samples, teaching training courses, giving technical seminars, or doing other tasks to support our worldwide business you’ll find new and exciting challenges daily.
Provide technical expertise to support worldwide technical sales representatives on pre- and post-sales activities for the biomaterials characterization and tissue engineering market segments
- Fulfill role as back-up technical expert for engineered materials (non-biomedical) applications.
- Perform demonstrations and conduct feasibility tests to characterize customer samples with appropriate data analysis, report authoring and presenting.
- Provide application specific test protocol development support for TA ElectroForce customers.
- Providing technical advisement and recommendations of the appropriate test solutions to prospective customers
- Develop and deliver customer training programs in the form of hands-on laboratory sessions, lectures, application notes and tutorial videos.
- Participation in conferences and tradeshows, including presenting technical papers.
- Collaborate across functional groups, including product management, engineering, sales and service, to provide customer and industry insights.
- Maintain applications lab facilities
- Domestic and International travel is required (30%-40%)
- Bachelors degree or more advanced degree from an accredited university in Mechanical, Biomedical or Chemical Engineering with a focus on Tissue Mechanics, Tissue Engineering and/or Medical Devices.
- Masters or PhD is a plus
- Minimum of 3-4 years’ of relevant industrial experience.
- Has a solid understanding of mechanical testing and instrumentation.
- Prior experience with ElectroForce test instruments and WinTest software a plus
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Ability to travel by both air and ground carrier. Both domestically and internationally.(~40-50%)
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