Application Engineer

Posted:
3/10/2026, 6:31:03 PM

Location(s):
Shandong, China ⋅ Beijing, China ⋅ Jinan, Shandong, China

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level

Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Position Summary

The Application Engineer is responsible for supporting pre-sales, product marketing activities in field, and application issues at mask shop customers in China/ Greater China.

Through pre-sales and marketing activities, promote products, new features, support new product introduction and sales in the region. By closely working with customer, understand in-depth customer needs, solving application problems, helps HQ R&D to address customer demands in new product/feature R&D.

He / she is expected to be a role-model and drive a performance and customer-oriented culture within Carl Zeiss SMT organization.  

Main Tasks

Pre-Sales 

  • Support sales and pre-sales activities including spec negotiations, product roadmap plan, and product demo to meet customer’s specifications together with related marketing / technical expertise in team.
  • Establish and facilitate positive interaction and relationship with customer through regular follow-up meetings
  • Liaise and leverage customer requests and specifications internally
Application
  • Respond to customer or field inquiries, work with a cross-functional team of HQ Application team, Product Managers to resolve technical issues and projects
  • Self-motivate and encourage growth and development of application knowledge. 
  • Generate application report and arrange needed activities to sales directors and HQ product managers
  • Build up strong connection and relationship with customer counterpart, collect information and customer needs.
  • Work with teams across organization including sales and marketing department, the engineering department, product management, and Business Development executives.
Product Marketing
  • Support SMT marketing activities with tradeshows, conferences, roadmap meetings while making sure all the marketing activities can meet ZEISS SMT corporate branding.
  • Understand and analyze customer and competitor’s product and strategy and facilitate strategic discussion.
  • Provide market research data to determine product potential candidate and using market intelligence by collecting and analyzing to gain valuable insight

Requirements

Education

  • Master’s degree and above from “211” university, majored in Engineering of Physics, Chemistry, Material Science, and Optics related field.

Experience

  • Minimum 3 years application / process engineering experience in Semiconductor related field, familiar with wafer fab or mask shop process. Good manner of English in reading, writing and speaking

Other

  • Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skill Working under pressure and great attention to details Team player and excellent communication skills cross functions and region

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team