Applications Engineer Senior

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 leverages engineering skills, as well as industry and field experience, to ensure that the organization’s products and solutions reflect the highest standards of performance, meeting, or exceeding market requirements. This person helps develop, validate, test, and integrate software and hardware products in the pursuit of cost-effective and market-ready solutions to customer challenges. Guided by more senior colleagues, this person contributes to technical analyses, planning, and design efforts that may identify products/solutions for roadmap consideration. Work is accomplished with some direction from the manager or senior colleagues • Serve as experienced vision technical resource and initial escalation point for internal and external stakeholder teams • Address key challenges related to the performance of our organization’s products and solutions in specific application scenarios. • Evaluate product performance and usability challenges in order to identify the core issue and eliminate the problem • Collaborate with sales, engineering, and product management teams to communicate resolution and ensure fixes are validated and become available in a future release • Provide analysis and input on how products/solutions can best meet or exceed customer/partner business requirements, as well as on how they perform/compared to competitive options • Assist in the planning and analysis of strategic customer projects to ensure that they are effectively executed. Ensure appropriate Zebra products/features are incorporated in order to maximize customer benefit and business value. • Help manage and maintain company vision labs, as well as remote testing infrastructure, in order to ensure the ability to respond to product/solution challenges and opportunities rapidly and effectively. • Represent the product management organization as a technical customer/partner contact; often assist with application deployments with the guidance of more senior colleagues. • May be asked to engage with product management colleagues to communicate market needs and inform and influence some aspects of the product…