Applications Engineer

Location: Georgetown

ON - Georgetown HQ - 45
CPI Power Electronics
- Canada - ON
- Georgetown
45 River Drive
Georgetown, ON , CAN

SHAPING THE FUTURE THROUGH INNOVATION AND DISCOVERY!

With a history spanning more than seven decades, Communications & Power Industries’ thousands of products have impacted people’s lives in numerous unseen ways every day. Our highly engineered products serve as the backbone of modern-day commercial and military communications systems, assist in diagnosing medical conditions, empower scientific discoveries and space exploration, and much more.

CPI is headquartered in Plano, Texas and is a global manufacturer of electronic components and subsystems. We have manufacturing locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. With a heritage of technological excellence, our team serves customers in the communications, defense, medical, industrial, and scientific markets.

Reporting to the Manager, Applications Engineering, the Applications Engineer serves as the primary technical advisor throughout the customer engagement process, translating customer requirements into practical, high-performance solutions that support both customer success and the Company's growth objectives.

Working closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Manufacturing, this role develops product configurations, supports technical proposals, and provides expert guidance through product evaluation, factory acceptance testing (FAT), and system commissioning to ensure customer requirements are successfully realized.

This role offers the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges using industry-leading RF and microwave technologies while working directly with customers around the world. As the technical voice of the customer, the Applications Engineer helps shape innovative solutions, contributes valuable market and application insights to Product Management and Engineering, and plays a key role in securing new business and delivering an exceptional customer experience.

YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR:

Customer Applications & Solution Development

• Serve as the primary technical advisor throughout the customer engagement process by translating application requirements into practical, commercially viable solutions and supporting the successful selection and implementation of CPI products.
• Support technical proposal development by preparing technical proposals, engineering bid requests, compliance matrices, technical documentation, and engineering recommendations.
• Provide technical recommendations throughout the sales cycle and product deployment, including proposal development, factory acceptance testing, and customer commissioning activities.
• Represent the Company at customer meetings, industry conferences, and trade shows as a technical subject matter expert.
• Develop standard and custom product configurations that balance customer requirements with technical performance, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.
• Work with engineering to communicate customer requirements, evaluate custom solutions and develop system-level designs and documentation.
• Help introduce new products and improvements by sharing customer feedback and supporting engineering change activities.

Technical Leadership & Product Acceptance

• Support factory acceptance testing (FAT) and customer acceptance tests through performance verification, equipment installation and system integration.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, production test, quality, and service teams to assemble, integrate, and perform functional testing that verify compliance with product specifications and support successful product delivery.
• Resolve technical issues during product implementation by collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and support the implementation of effective corrective actions.
• Coordinate with Product Support to ensure effective product handoff and support readiness following customer acceptance.

Continuous Improvement & Professional Development

• Maintain expertise in CPI products, RF technologies, industry standards, and emerging market trends to ensure technically accurate customer guidance and effective…