# Field Application Engineer - High Speed Interconnects

**Company**: 3M
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,676 - $178,049
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Customer Facing Application Engineer – Optical Interconnects, you will apply your technical expertise and customer engagement skills to support innovative interconnect solutions across data center, networking, and other high-performance connectivity applications.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a technical interface between 3M and customers for optical interconnect solutions, with a primary emphasis on optical fiber technologies and expanded beam optics.

- Support customer design-in activities for fiber optic connectivity, optical transport, and high-speed communication systems.

- Provide technical consultation to customers, sales teams, and channel partners on product selection, application fit, system integration, and performance optimization.

- Drive adoption of 3M interconnect solutions by understanding customer architectures, technical requirements, and next-generation roadmap needs.

- Collaborate with product development, R&D, manufacturing, quality, and marketing teams to communicate customer needs and influence future product direction.

- Lead technical discussions, product demonstrations, evaluations, and troubleshooting efforts for customer applications involving optical and copper interconnects.

- Support qualification activities by developing test plans, analyzing results, and ensuring customer requirements are met with validated data.

- Assist customers in resolving field and application issues through hands-on technical problem-solving and cross-functional coordination.

- Provide application guidance related to product design, manufacturing processes, and process capability considerations to support successful product implementation and customer adoption.

- Contribute to technical documentation, application notes, customer presentations, and training materials to support product deployment and market adoption.

- Monitor industry trends, competitive technologies, and emerging standards in optical fiber interconnects and high-speed data communication.

- Ensure technical claims in customer-facing literature and communications are accurate, well-supported, and aligned with product performance.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)

- Three (3) years of experience in a customer-facing technical, applications engineering, systems engineering, or product support role in a private, public, government, or military environment.

- Two (2) years of experience with high-speed interconnect technologies, including optical fiber and/or copper connectivity solutions.

- Current, valid Driver’s License.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field from an accredited institution.

- Five (5) or more years of experience in optical connectivity for communications systems.

- Strong knowledge of optical fiber interconnects, transceiver connectivity, cable assemblies, and data center optical infrastructure.

- Experience in process engineering or process development for optical, fiber optic, or precision interconnect technologies, including process design, scale-up, optimization, qualification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing.

- Experience transferring technical knowledge and delivering technical training related to production processes, including developing training materials, providing hands-on instruction, and communicating process requirements, best practices, and troubleshooting methods to manufacturing, engineering, and customer teams.

- Familiarity with data center systems architecture, networking, AI infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments.

- Experience interpreting industry standards, qualification requirements, and test methods related to fiber optic and electrical interconnect components.

- Experience with optical test equipment and performance characterization of optical or interconnect systems.

- Ability to analyze customer requirements and translate them into application guidance and product recommendations.

- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in customer and field environments.

- Experience developing and delivering technical presentations to customers, internal stakeholders, and external partners.

- Strong communication skills, including oral, written, and presentation skills.

- Ability to work effectively across global, cross-functional teams.

## Skills

### Required
- high-speed interconnect technologies
- optical fiber
- copper connectivity solutions
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Optical Engineering
- Physics

### Nice to have
- optical connectivity for communications systems
- process engineering
- process development
- data center systems architecture
- networking
- AI infrastructure
- high-performance computing environments

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