Application engineer for PCBY products - Yokohama, Japan
Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves being the primary application interface for customer process challenges and technical discussions for PCBY products.
What you'll do
- Act as the primary application interface for customer process challenges and technical discussion.
- Provide on-site and remote application support.
- Support pre-sales activities, including tool demonstrations and product promotion.
- Conduct Benchmarking / BMT / H2H evaluations with RDA/PDA experts and collect competitor information.
- Support new feature introduction and application validation.
- Build customer-specific Best Known Methods (BKM) and application guidelines.
What you'll need
- Doctorate Degree and 0 years related work experience, or Master's Level Degree and 3 years related work experience, or Bachelor's Level Degree and 5 years related work experience.
Skills: customer process challenges, technical discussion, on-site application support, tool demonstrations, benchmarking
This role has been open 33 days — well below the 80-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Metrology Inspection
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Open roles in category
127
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$132k
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| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (127 roles · 8 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 94 | 127 |
| Median days open | 74 d | 80 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $132k |
Skills observed across this category: customer process challenges, technical discussion, on-site application support, tool demonstrations, benchmarking
Who's hiring in this category
- KLA Corporation (this employer) · 94 open roles · median 74 d
- Onto Innovation · 20 open roles · median 94 d
- ASML · 4 open roles · median 73 d
- Applied Materials · 3 open roles · median 112 d
- Micron Technology · 2 open roles · median 57 d
- Veeco Instruments · 2 open roles · median 89 d
How we counted: 127 open Applications FAE (Metrology Inspection) roles from 8 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.