Lead Applications Engineer

About the Role

At H3X, we are building the most advanced electric motors in the world for sustainable aviation, marine, industrial, and defense applications. At 12 kW/kg continuous, the HPDM family of integrated motor drives is a step change in electric propulsion technology and removes one of the main barriers blocking widespread proliferation of electric and hybrid aircraft. Our motors range in size from 30 kW to 30 MW, include integrated drives, and are 3X lighter than competitors’ systems.

We are hiring a motivated Applications Engineer to join the H3X team as a technical resource interfacing between our customers, design engineering, and the production organization. The Applications Engineer is a critical team member understanding customer requirements, providing technical support, and ensuring our integrated motor drives are integrated into customer applications with success. You will help to ensure internal engineering teams are delivering on time, while actively maintaining communication with the customer.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with existing and potential customers to understand technical requirements, and translate into new products and systems solutions

• Provide support through the pre- and post-sales process, with technical support, product demonstrations, troubleshooting, and act as the main POC with active customers through delivery

• Closely partner with design engineering, manufacturing, and other internal H3X teams to ensure customer needs are evaluated and met during product development and production of our motor products

• Support the development lifecycle with technical documentation, user guides, product notes, and integration instructions for customers

• Support the test, qualification, validation, and integration of our products in customer environments

• Share voice of customer feedback with internal team to help identify opportunities for product improvements, new applications, integrations, and customer market segments

• Conduct market research to develop clear understanding of market landscape and identify additional product market fit

• Represent H3X at customer sites, trade shows, or events as needed

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in applications engineering, field engineering, sales/business development, or technical support in a hardware or manufacturing setting

• Strong technical knowledge of mechanical/electrical systems, manufacturing processes, and hardware integration

• Ability to work cross functionally with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and other internal teams

• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer sites and trade shows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in automotive, aircraft or aerospace industry

• Experience with SOLIDWORKS or another CAD package

• Prior Mechanical Design experience with an interest in Customer Operations

Benefits & Compensation

• Salary Band: $120,000 - $160,000

• Employee equity incentive plan

• Health insurance: medical, vision, dental, ST & LT disability, and life

• Gym membership stipend (up to $60/month)

• Epic or IKON Ski/Snowboard Pass (up to $869 provided)

• Flexible hours (deliverable-based goals)

• Flexible time off (just need manager approval)

• Relocation package

• Bi-weekly company events

• 401k program

The Company

H3X Technologies is a U.S.-based manufacturer of electric motors for sustainable aviation, marine, industrial, and defense applications. They have developed a family of integrated motor drives that can scale in power from 30kW to 30MW with power densities as high as 12 kW/kg and best-in-class efficiency. This high performance is enabled by novel scalable core technology and proprietary manufacturing processes for motor stacking, winding, and assembly. The design, manufacturing, and testing of their products is done in-house at their headquarters in Louisville, Colorado.
H3X’s world-class team is composed of experts from Tesla, SpaceX, GE Aviation, and Siemens with deep knowledge in electric machines, power electronics, material science, control systems, and advanced manufacturing. They take pride in our multidisciplinary approach, relentless dedication, high capital efficiency, and Skunkworks-style execution.
H3X has raised over $30M and has backing from top VC firms and strategic firms including Lockheed Martin, Hanwha, Y Combinator, Cubit Capital, Metaplanet, TechNexus, and Liquid 2 Ventures to deploy capital for rapid scaleup.
H3X is poised to become the world’s leading supplier of advanced electric motors by 2030 to drive deep decarbonization in aviation, marine, and heavy industrial applications and unlock next-generation electrified defense technology to strengthen national security.
H3X is an equal opportunity-affirmative action employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, past or present military service or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.