Application Engineer
Careerlevel: Professionals I Location: Tokyo I Job-ID: 1402
MD ELEKTRONIK is a global market leader in data transmission solutions for vehicles and a trusted technology partner to the automotive industry. Fast, secure and reliable in-vehicle data transmission is our core competence.
Worldwide, MD ELEKTRONIK employs more than 5,500 people who contribute to the future of in-vehicle data transmission every day.
Short Description
In this customer-focused application engineering role, you act at the interface between our customers and MD, collaborating closely with sales, R&D and other internal functions to translate customer requirements into feasible technical solutions and ensure that customer expectations and MD’s technical capabilities remain aligned throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Your Responsibilities
- Act as the central technical interface to the customer and represent customer-specific technical concerns and interests within MD.
- Prepare and evaluate customer enquiries from a technical perspective and provide professional technical consulting to the customer.
- Define and specify technical solutions that meet customer requirements and MD standards.
- Represent the customer’s technical perspective in MD projects (R&D projects, programs, ramp-ups).
- Maintain and further develop the technical interface to the customer, including building deep knowledge of the customer’s technical roadmaps and future requirements.
- Support the sales team in customer acquisition activities and ongoing customer care with your technical expertise.
- Apply your product and process knowledge to ensure technically robust and manufacturable solutions.
Your Profile
- Technical college certification or comparable technical/administrative degree.
- 3–5 years of professional experience in a technical customer-facing role, preferably in the automotive environment.
- Solid overall product knowledge and understanding of application engineering processes.
- Experience with automotive processes and standards.
- Confident handling of SAP and MS Office applications.
- CAD knowledge for understanding and discussing technical designs.
- Very good communication skills in the local language and in English.
- High sense of ownership with the courage to make decisions, a curious and solution-oriented mindset, strong self-reflection and continuous improvement focus, and a collaborative working style with internal and external stakeholders.
Your Benefits
- You work for a fast-growing international company in the automotive industry with a clear mission and a long-term perspective.
- You play an active role in building our business in one of the most important markets worldwide: Japan.
- You benefit from a work culture that values a healthy work–life balance, mutual respect and collaboration.
- You join a startup-like organization backed by a strong global company – combining agility with stability and reliability.
If you have any questions, please contact Atsushi Inoue at +81 70-2448-5247.
Please note: We kindly ask you to apply exclusively online via our career portal. Applications via other channels (e.g. by post or e-mail) cannot be considered.
For ease of reading, only the masculine form is used. This is without any intention of discrimination. We expressly encourage all qualified individuals to apply.