Application Engineer

• Analyzing new and evolving business requirements and map them to technical requirements.
• Identifying data needed to model business requirements, develop data architecture to support the requirements.
• Identifying downstream and upstream data flows needed, build the interfaces to ingest data from upstream sources and present the data to downstream consumers.
• Developing data quality monitors to analyze incoming data to ensure data integrity across the application.
• Identifying user interface needs and design/develop them to meet user requirements.
• Monitoring application health and drive solutions to improve usability, performance, scalability, and supportability.
• Supporting and partnering with application users to explain results and resolve any data and system issues.

Software Development Engineer

• Own key security domains such as vulnerability management, application security, API security, and supply chain security
• Drive improvements in security coverage, prioritization, and remediation workflows
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate security into design reviews, threat modeling, CI/CD pipelines, and developer workflows
• Provide actionable, pragmatic guidance that helps teams ship securely
• Develop and improve security tooling and automation to reduce manual effort
• Implement and tune tools for SAST, SCA, DAST, dependency security, and container security
• Leverage AI/LLMs where appropriate to improve triage, detection, and review processes
• Triage and prioritize vulnerabilities using risk-based approaches
• Partner with teams to ensure timely remediation of critical issues
• Help define and improve SLAs, metrics, and reporting
• Conduct threat modeling, design reviews, and security assessments
• Contribute to incident response and postmortems for security events
• Identify and help remediate systemic risks

Staff Security Engineer, Application Security

• Meet or exceed revenue targets by:
• Effectively providing metal cutting solutions, by understanding current and future market trends, to meet customers’ key needs and objectives in a professional manner.
• Generating, qualifying, and managing all sales leads, prospects, and new customer accounts.
• Proactively managing the complete sales process, including prospecting, qualification, consultative sales meetings, product demos, pricing, terms negotiations, and sourcing.
• Developing and executing strategic territory plans to deliver revenue goals with a focus on new product sales.
• Providing timely answers to pre-sales technical and commercial queries from customers.
• Maintaining up-to-date customer and project records in CRM to ensure a clean and healthy pipeline
• Actively collaborating with internal sales and support professionals, such as Application Engineers, Channel Partner Reps, Inside Sales, and others to provide value and a positive end-to-end customer experience.
• Performing online and/or onsite demonstrations of metal cutting products tailored to customers’ needs.
• Conducting pre-sales workshops, webinars, and other online/onsite events within the territory.
• Representing and promoting Kennametal at tradeshows, conferences, and other events within the territory.
• Delivering cost savings through analysis of complex application needs and providing recommendations to support customer business need through tooling and application testing.
• Preparing and presenting progress, status, and forecasting reports.

CNC Tooling Sales and Application Engineer

• Directly engaging customers to provide support for customer developed systems including providing on-site power on support
• Participating in the defining and development of Proof-of-Concept systems (and demos)
• Replicating and debugging customer reported platform issues
• Development and presentation of technical collateral to customers, ecosystem providers, and the sales channel
• Working directly with platform and chipset software architects to develop and finalize platform hardware requirements
• Participate in new product and program meetings
• Participate in customer platform schematic and layout reviews
• Provide support to analysis teams in the context of field quality return issues
• Making use of laboratory measurement equipment during debug activities
• Operate Linux based machines and tools in-order-to build and flash SW components and facilitate debug activities

Hardware Platform Applications Engineer – Military & Aerospace

• Develop cloud and hybrid-cloud applications using frameworks from internal and external cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Azure
• Architect and coordinate cloud solutions across areas such as application development, identity and access management, network and data management, and security
• Define and implement DevSecOps solutions, linking them to cloud platforms and ensuring adherence to security standards
• Drive the implementation of DevOps processes, automation, and culture for application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Build and design web services in the cloud while orchestrating and automating cloud-based platforms
• Develop responsive frontend interfaces for applications that run on mobile and PC form factors utilizing technologies like HTML5, TypeScript, and JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Bootstrap)
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures to ensure high application performance and scalability
• Educate and mentor multidisciplinary teams on cloud-based solutions and best practices, fostering collaboration and technical growth.
• Define and document strategies for infrastructure maintenance and application deployment, ensuring alignment with company guidelines.

Cloud Application Development Engineer

• Security Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Integration: Support security practices throughout the entire software development process, from design review through deployment.
• Application Security Testing: Perform offensive penetration testing on web applications, internal services, and robot-side software to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Automation and Tooling: Support security tools, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) or Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or runtime vulnerability assessments, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) systems. Experience with systems such as Artifactory and GitHub Security.
• Threat Modeling and Security Reviews: Support threat modeling including security reviews of major software releases.
• Vulnerability Management: Manage the lifecycle of identified vulnerabilities, prioritizing remediation efforts based on risk to the fleet, proprietary code, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaboration: Partner with development, platform, and infrastructure teams to ensure security requirements are met without hindering engineering velocity.

Senior Application Security Engineer

• Security Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Integration: Drive the implementation of security practices throughout the entire software development process, from design review through deployment.
• Application Security Testing: Perform offensive penetration testing and defensive (Blue Team) testing on web applications, internal services, and robot-side software to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Automation and Tooling: Implement and manage security tools, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) or Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or runtime vulnerability assessments, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) systems. Implementation of these systems using tools such as JFrog Artifactory, GitHub Advanced Security, Datadog, Wiz or Snyk.
• Code Review and Governance: Define and enforce security policies for source code, including mandatory GitHub security practices and review procedures.
• Vulnerability Management: Manage the lifecycle of identified vulnerabilities, prioritizing remediation efforts based on risk to the fleet, proprietary code, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaboration: Partner with development, platform, and infrastructure teams to ensure security requirements are met without hindering engineering velocity.

Staff Application Security Engineer

• Design, develop, and test cloud-native applications and microservices
• Build scalable APIs and backend services
• Ensure security best practices across cloud environments
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
• Create and execute manual and automated test plans/suites

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the U.S. Applications organization, ensuring alignment with ZEISS business objectives and customer success goals.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing applications team by establishing clear service expectations, strengthening organizational capability, and fostering a customer-centric culture.
• Define priorities, operational rhythms, and performance metrics, incorporating voice-of-customer feedback and customer success KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product Management, and Operations teams to improve customer adoption, retention, satisfaction, and revenue growth.
• Drive strategic initiatives and cross-functional programs from concept through execution, including business case development, stakeholder alignment, and customer-focused process improvements.
• Serve as the voice of the U.S. customer and business within the global leadership team, influencing strategy, investment decisions, and execution priorities through data-driven insights and market feedback.
• Translate customer requirements, industry trends, and market opportunities into actionable recommendations for headquarters and global teams to support innovation, roadmap planning, and long-term business growth.

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