Application Development Engineer

7 days ago

Pune, Maharashtra, India 3M Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year
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Job Description:

Position: Application Development Engineer (ADE)
Business Vertical: Automotive, Transportation & Energy LaboratoryLocation: PuneThe Impact You'll Make in this Role

As an Application Development Engineer, you will leverage your technical expertise and mechanical aptitude to collaborate with OEMs, Tier suppliers, and cross-functional teams. You will play a critical role in developing, testing, and validating innovative automotive applications, driving customer-inspired solutions, and enabling process automation and tooling advancements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary technical interface with OEMs and Tier suppliers for 3M automotive solutions.

  • Lead application development activities, including ideation, feasibility analysis, design documentation, and validation.

  • Apply tooling knowledge and hands-on experience with automotive part suppliers to deliver optimized solutions.

  • Conduct field trials, in-plant application support, and internal testing to validate product performance.

  • Provide application support and training to customers, sales, and marketing teams, including leveraging digital/e-tools.

  • Drive Customer Inspired Innovation (CII) programs through market specialization and product expertise.

  • Collaborate across functions to solve complex problems and support the commercialization of new customer solutions.

  • Ensure compliance with TS16949/QMS documentation, industry regulations, and safety/health/environmental policies.

  • Support prototyping, sampling, and scaling-up activities, including obtaining customer prototype and tooled-sample approvals.

  • Evaluate and audit product performance against customer-specific requirements.

  • Provide timely corrective action plans for customer complaints.

  • Apply 3M Six-Sigma methodologies to drive continuous improvement in work practices.

Your Skills and Expertise

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics.

  • 3–5 years of experience in technical/application engineering, customer support, or related roles in automotive or allied industries.

  • Proven expertise in tooling design, manufacturing, and understanding material behavior during processing.

  • Hands-on experience in design-to-build fundamentals and lab-to-field scale-up.

  • Strong analytical, data-driven, and tech-savvy mindset.

  • Excellent communication skills with fluency in English and comfort working in a global environment.

  • Self-motivated, collaborative, and capable of working independently.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in customer-facing technical roles in OEM/Tier supplier environments.

  • Exposure to prototyping, sampling, and validation processes.

  • Knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and automotive quality systems (TS16949/QMS).

  • Certification/experience in Six-Sigma or other continuous improvement methodologies.

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