Application Engineer - Southern California
Los Angeles,San Diego
( Remote )
full-time
The Application Engineer is the technical bridge between FranklinWH and the installers, EPCs, distributors, and strategic accounts who deploy our energy solutions in the field. Application Engineers answer the hard technical questions, perform single-line and full solution reviews, validate system designs against customer load and backup requirements, train installer networks, and partner with the Sales team to support active opportunities.
We hire Application Engineers across a broad experience range, and we level the role at offer based on your depth, autonomy, and customer-facing range. Early-career Application Engineers spend significant time in the field — at customer sites, installer trainings, industry events, and ride-alongs with senior team members — because that exposure is how you learn the product, the installer ecosystem, and the realities of how these systems actually get deployed. As you grow into senior Application Engineer roles, you’ll spend more time as the depth expert other AEs and the Sales team escalate to: leading the gnarly design reviews, owning the technical voice on strategic accounts, mentoring newer AEs, and feeding the patterns you see from the field directly into Product and R&D.
There are two well-defined growth paths from this role: deeper into the Application Engineering ladder as a senior individual contributor and eventual team lead, or lateral into Product Management, where the field-pattern view you’ve built becomes the foundation for shaping the roadmap. Which path you take depends on your interests and strengths.
This role is based in Southern California. Travel is shaped by the work — typically heavier in the early years (field exposure, installer trainings, industry events) and more selective as you become a depth resource the team relies on. Other locations will open soon.
