# Field Application Engineer - Optical Circuit Switching

The Role You'll be the face of our technology in every room that matters, proving, not just pitching, that our switch is the answer. From presales qualification to live demos to design reviews, you own the client conversation end to end, at our office or theirs, hardware in hand. You build the test setups, run the demos, and dig into the failure analysis when something breaks, because credibility here is earned, not claimed. And everything you learn feeds straight back into product, engineering, and sales. Responsibilities Own every technical conversation with the client, covering qualification, demos, and design reviews, wherever their hardware lives Show, live, exactly how our switch fits their setup Build and run the test setups and demos that prove it Debug on the spot when a demo doesn't go to plan Drive failure analysis to root cause Turn client feedback into sharp, actionable input for product, engineering, and sales Be the technical thread running through the entire sales cycle Command a room of senior engineers, then pivot to the executive suite, without missing a beat What We're Looking For You'll have experience in hardware, optics, or photonics 5 or more years

- **Id**: 1238315
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-field-application-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-08T15:18:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 66
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2199
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2029320
- **Name**: Salience Labs
- **Domain**: saliencelabs.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saliencelabs>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 41000
- **Max usd**: 87000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 875

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 66

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:23:05Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.447
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 64
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:5, urgency, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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