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Engineering Career Guide – Applications Engineer

26-08-2022
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As an Applications Engineer, many responsibilities need to be completed at the end of the day, following this as you can see the duties are; collaborating on software development projects with the engineering, sales, and customer services departments, writing code and scripts for applications, as well as installing, maintaining and testing applications. 

Some more tasks are; contributing to sales presentations, as well as demonstrating prototypes and completed applications, and generating ideas for software innovation based on market trends. 

There are also some requirements as well as responsibilities such as; a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar, a minimum of 2 years experience as an Applications Engineer, previous experience in sales or customer services will be advantageous. 

Some skills that are required are the following; excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, superb collaboration and communication skills, and finally great organisational and time management skills. 

In this role, there are many pathways to pick from such as most Applications Engineers advance into Project Engineering, and then Project Management positions after 2-3 years of successful experience. 

Some more job roles that are available are, Design Engineering, Sales Engineering or Account Management. If any of these roles interest, you please contact us by Perfect Placement UK Ltd. 

Typically, an Applications Engineer works 40hrs/Week as well as offers overtime if needed. Salaries range between £30,000-£117,000 per annum depending on experience. 

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