Applications Engineer - Custom Motion Solutions

Haydon Kerk Pittman, an AMETEK business, provides precision motion-control solutions for medical, laboratory automation, semiconductor, industrial automation, and other advanced technology markets. We are seeking an Applications Engineer – Custom Motion Solutions to serve as the primary technical interface for assigned customers and sales territories. This role supports customers from initial application review through technical qualification, custom engineering handoff, prototype evaluation, and transition toward production. The Applications Engineer partners with Sales, Product Management, Custom Engineering, Operations, and customers to assess technical fit, guide customers toward standard or lightly customized solutions whenever possible and ensure larger custom opportunities are clearly defined before entering Engineering. Applications Engineering owns the customer-specific technical path required to convert qualified opportunities into successful custom solutions.

Key Responsibilities: Customer Technical Support & Opportunity Qualification

Serve as the primary technical contact for assigned customers, territories, and opportunities. Work with customers and Sales to understand application requirements, performance needs, operating conditions, timing, target price, and production expectations. Provide technical guidance on HKP motion-control products, including linear actuators, lead screw technologies, stepper motors, DC motors, and related electromechanical solutions. Direct customers toward standard products, existing configurations, or light customization whenever possible. Evaluate customer-specific opportunities for feasibility, application fit, alignment with HKP capabilities, risk, timing, and resource needs. Ensure requirements, assumptions, and success criteria are sufficiently defined before custom engineering work begins.

Engineering Handoff & Custom Project Support

Translate customer needs into clear engineering requirements, specifications, assumptions, and acceptance criteria. Move qualified, strategy-aligned opportunities into Engineering quickly when requirements are clear and capacity is available. Partner with Sales, Product Management, and Engineering when prioritization requires balancing customer value, technical fit, revenue potential, and resource constraints. Remain the customer-facing technical owner while Custom Engineering performs detailed design, development, prototyping, and testing. Coordinate technical communication between customers and Engineering to improve responsiveness and reduce inefficient large-group meetings. Support prototype evaluation, technical iterations, quotation input, documentation expectations, and transition toward production orders.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Partner with Sales to support conversion of qualified custom opportunities while Sales retains ownership of the commercial funnel. Provide technical input for quotations, prototype proposals, feasibility reviews, and production assumptions. Share recurring customer needs, product gaps, configuration opportunities, and platform ideas with Product Management. Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Customer Service, and Quality to support customer requirements and production readiness. Provide product and application training to Sales, customers, and internal teams as needed.

We are looking for: Required

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field. 3–5+ years of experience in applications engineering, technical sales support, motion control, electromechanical systems, automation, or related industrial technologies. Strong understanding of electromechanical products, motor fundamentals, application requirements, and manufacturing considerations. Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements and actionable engineering inputs. Experience supporting customers, sales teams,