Applications Manager

Company Overview

AEM Holdings Ltd. is a Singapore-based global leader in semiconductor and electronics testing solutions. It delivers advanced test innovation, automation, and engineering solutions to top technology companies worldwide, enabling improved product quality and faster time-to-market.

Job Summary

The Applications Manager leads the translation of customer requirements into reliable application solutions, directs technical execution from solution definition to production roll-out, and builds a high-performing applications team collaborating across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop the Applications Engineering team by planning resources, allocating work, and driving capability development and succession planning

Define functional priorities, technical standards, operating processes, and measurable objectives aligned with business and customer needs

Foster a technical culture focused on customer value, disciplined execution, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

Partner with customers to analyze test requirements, application challenges, and production goals, translating them into practical technical solutions

Lead technical reviews, solution scoping, feasibility assessments, demonstrations, evaluations, and provide technical input for quotations and statements of work

Serve as senior technical escalation point for complex customer and field issues, ensuring ownership, timely communication, and effective resolution

Oversee application solution development across ABI, SLT, and ATE platforms, including board design, test-program development, system integration, validation, and optimization

Direct solution release, factory and site acceptance, customer qualification, production roll-out, and sustaining support

Ensure application deliverables are robust, documented, traceable, and compliant with customer specifications and AEM quality and safety standards

Plan and manage multiple customer and development projects by defining scope, schedules, milestones, resources, risks, budgets, and status reporting

Balance customer commitments and business priorities to ensure timely, high-quality delivery

Monitor project and application performance, identify delivery risks early, and drive corrective actions with cross-functional stakeholders

Collaborate with Hardware, Software, Firmware, Core Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Field Service, Sales, and Program Management teams to achieve project and customer objectives

Coordinate with AEM Engineering and Production Centres to resolve technical and execution issues and ensure smooth transfer into production and customer environments

Share best practices, lessons learned, reusable methods, and technical knowledge across regional and global teams

Establish and improve application engineering processes, design and test methods, documentation standards, tools, and technical governance

Drive root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements in system performance, reliability, test coverage, yield, cycle time, and customer experience

Develop training materials and conduct technical training for Applications, Field Service, and customer teams as needed

Required competencies and certifications

Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer, or Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in semiconductor test, ATE, instrumentation, application engineering, or test development, including at least 5 years in a technical leadership or people-management role

Strong understanding of analogue and digital electronics, metrology, semiconductor test processes, system integration, and test methodology

Proven experience leading customer-facing technical engagements, complex issue resolution, product qualification, deployment, and production ramp activities

Strong project-management skills covering scope, resources, budget, risk, schedule, reporting, and stakeholder alignment

Effective leadership, coaching, influencing, communication, and presentation skills in a global, cross-functional environment

Fluent written and spoken English to communicate effectively with global teams and customers

Willingness to travel internationally and support customer activities outside normal working hours when business needs require

Preferred competencies and qualifications

Hands-on experience with application boards, test programmes, instrumentation, fixtures, handlers, DUT interfaces, and hardware-software integration

Additional regional language capability to support communication with regional customers and teams

AEM Holdings Ltd.

is a Singapore-based global leader in semiconductor and electronics testing solutions. Headquartered in Singapore and listed on the Singapore Exchange, AEM delivers advanced test innovation, automation, and engineering solutions to leading technology companies worldwide.

The company specialises in customised, application-specific solutions across the semiconductor manufacturing process, spanning test systems, instrumentation, automation equipment, and software integration.

At AEM, innovation is at the core. By integrating test, automation, and data capabilities, we enable customers to improve product quality, accelerate time-to-market, and ensure reliability in next-generation technologies such as AI, high-performance computing, and advanced connectivity.

With a global footprint across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, AEM offers a collaborative and dynamic environment, delivering end-to-end solutions from engineering development to high-volume manufacturing.