Product Application Engineer

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Cubic Defense Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on  Details:

Job Summary:

The Product Applications Engineer (PAE) applies engineering principles, Nuvotronics product knowledge, and application experience to support customers in the design-in, integration, and use of Nuvotronics products. The PAE is an internal user of Nuvotronics products, developing evaluation boards and production-representative reference designs with particular emphasis on sound PCBA design principles, RF/mmWave board design, and component-to-system integration. They are also a technical bridge supporting customer activities, working closely with other Nuvotronics engineering disciplines to ensure good communication and coordination with customers.

Additionally, the PAE is responsible for communicating customer technical needs to all relevant individuals and departments within Nuvotronics by collecting and documenting customer technical requirements and application needs.

The responsibilities of the PAE are divided into two major areas. First, the PAE is the initial user for Poly Strata products, developing evaluation boards, product demonstrations, and reusable reference designs that demonstrate recommended schematic, layout, stack-up, grounding, power-distribution, thermal, mechanical, assembly, and RF integration practices. Second, the PAE is the technical bridge with the customer, supporting technical discussions throughout the sales process and helping customers successfully integrate Poly Strata products into their PCBAs and RF subsystems.

These responsibilities include maintaining customer engineering relationships, overseeing the technical engagement process, and acting as the point of contact for customer-related technical activities. The role requires the ability to logically navigate complex technical issues with many moving parts, strong communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to meet time-driven deliverables. The successful candidate will build collaborative relationships, help develop and implement product strategy, and drive design-in objectives.

We are looking for a Product Application Engineer (PAE) with experience in Defense, SATCOM, Test & Measurement, Mobile Infrastructure, or mmWave applications. The ideal candidate has practical experience designing and bringing up RF PCBAs, integrating RF components into larger assemblies, and translating product guidance into clear, validated reference designs for customers.

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Job Duties and Responsibilities (what you will do):

Identifies new and expanded business opportunities within a market or region. Develop, document, validate, and maintain evaluation boards, customer-ready reference designs, and product demonstrations that accelerate successful design-in.

Apply and communicate PCBA design principles, including stack-up definition, controlled-impedance routing, grounding and return-current management, power integrity, decoupling, thermal management, design for manufacturability, assembly, and test.

Own RF PCBA implementation and integration activities, including RF transmission-line design, transitions and launches, connector and interconnect selection, placement and routing, shielding and isolation, bias networks, calibration/de-embedding structures, and mitigation of coupling, loss, and parasitic effects.

Create reusable reference-design packages that include schematics, layouts, bills of materials, design notes, simulation assumptions, fabrication and assembly guidance, test procedures, measured results, and known limitations.

Plan and execute board bring-up and RF validation using appropriate laboratory equipment, compare measured performance with simulation and product data, and drive corrective actions when results do not align.

Develop, implement, and support customer technical design-in engagement strategies.

Directly support customers in using Nuvotronics products, including working with customer…