Applications Engineer II

Overview: At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges. Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve. You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally. Come make an impact every day at Zebra. What We're Looking For: This role will contribute to the architecting, evaluation, improvement, and support of system solutions that utilize the organization’s application engineering portfolio. The goal of this job is to ensure that customer requirements can be successfully met or exceeded. In this role you will: assist in the system integration of fixed industrial scanning and specific engineering discipline to provide high-performance, validated, and tested solutions to partners and customers. Work is guided by more senior application engineers. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Serve as a technical resource for Zebra customers and Zebra partners, addressing key challenges related to the performance of Zebra’s products and solutions in specific application scenarios. • Use existing imaging toolsets or refinement of existing tools to solve novel or increasingly complex imaging problems • Implement testing and troubleshooting strategies. • Analyze key test data to identify issues and propose potential solutions. • Collaborates with more senior AEs, as well as sales, engineering, and product management teams to identify and execute resolution. • Provides input to the analysis of strategic customer projects to ensure that they are effectively executed. • With guidance from senior colleagues, engage in software design, hardware analysis, integration work, and/or solution development for proof of concepts. • For high priority opportunities, may be asked to assist sales team/partners with deployment and/or testing on site at customer locations. • Help maintain company vision labs, as well as remote testing infrastructure, in order to ensure the ability to respond to product/solution challenges rapidly and effectively • Builds product/solution demonstrations based on the guidance/planning of more senior Application Engineer/s to ensure that products/solutions are represented in a highly professional and effective manner at internal and external events • May be asked to assist with the development of technical training and/or solution documentation • Performs benchmarking to understand the competitive marketplace. • Provides critical technical product feedback to engineering, sales, and product teams Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, abilities, and skills required of personnel so classified. Benefits: We understand the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing, which is why we offer flexibility for our teams including: hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day to promote revitalization and success. Job Posting Statement: To protect candidates from falling victim to online fraudulent activity involving fake job postings and employment offers, please be aware our recruiters will always connect with you via @zebra.com email accounts. Applications are only accepted through our applicant tracking system and only accept personal identifying information through that system. Our Talent Acquisition team will not ask for you to provide personal identifying information via e-mail or outside of the system. If you are a victim of identity theft contact your local police department. AI Technology Statement: Zebra Technologies leverages AI technology to evaluate job applications using objective, job-relevant criteria. This approach enhances efficiency and promotes fairness in the hiring process. However, every decision regarding interviews and hiring is made by our dedicated team, because we believe people make the best decisions about people. For more on how we use technology in hiring and how we process applicant data, see our Zebra Privacy Policy .