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Job Description
Reports To
Head of Customer Chief Engineer
About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Technical Sales Engineer to drive business growth for advanced automotive software, ECU development, testing, calibration, diagnostics, and AI-enabled engineering solutions.
This role combines technical consulting, pre-sales engineering, customer engagement, and solution selling. The successful candidate will work closely with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, semiconductor companies, and software engineering teams to understand their technical challenges and promote solutions across automotive embedded software, AUTOSAR, in-vehicle networking, ECU testing, measurement & calibration, diagnostics, virtual validation, and AI-driven development workflows.
The ideal candidate has strong experience in automotive software or embedded systems, hands-on knowledge of development and testing toolchains, and the ability to translate complex engineering requirements into compelling technical and commercial solutions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Sales & Business Development
- Identify, develop, and manage sales opportunities with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and technology partners.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers by understanding their engineering workflows, software development, and toolchain requirements.
- Promote automotive engineering solutions related to:
- ECU software development
- AUTOSAR Classic and Adaptive
- In-vehicle networking
- Diagnostics
- Measurement and calibration
- SIL/HIL/MIL validation
- Software-defined vehicle development
- Support the full sales cycle from opportunity qualification, technical discovery, solution proposal, product demonstration, proof of concept, technical negotiation, and final closing.
- Work with account managers and sales teams to develop account strategies, revenue plans, and customer engagement roadmaps.
2. Pre-Sales Consulting & Solution Design
- Analyze customer requirements and recommend suitable software, engineering services, and integrated solutions.
- Prepare and deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, and solution proposals.
- Conduct technical discussions with software engineers, system architects, validation engineers, calibration engineers, project managers, and senior technical stakeholders.
- Support RFQ responses, technical documentation, competitive analysis, and value proposition development.
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, application support, and global expert teams to define customer-specific solutions.
- Provide technical input for quotations, project scoping, implementation planning, and service proposals.
3. AI Solution Promotion & Customer Enablement
- Promote AI-enabled solutions for automotive software development, testing, diagnostics, validation, and engineering productivity improvement.
- Identify customer pain points where AI can improve efficiency, quality, automation, and decision-making, such as:
- Defect detection and root-cause analysis
- Requirement analysis and traceability
- Predictive diagnostics
- Simulation scenario generation
- AI-based validation and verification
- Engineering workflow automation
- Present AI solution concepts to technical and business stakeholders, clearly explaining benefits, limitations, implementation requirements, and ROI.
- Lead or support AI-related proof-of-concept projects with customers.
- Work with internal AI, data science, and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into feasible AI solution proposals.
- Help customers understand how AI can be integrated into existing automotive development toolchains and processes.
- Collect customer feedback and market insights to support AI product strategy and solution roadmap development.
- Develop AI solution sales materials, demo scenarios, technical white papers, and customer success stories.
4. Customer Relationship & Technical Account Management
- Build long-term relationships with key customer stakeholders across engineering, purchasing, management, and innovation teams.
- Maintain a strong understanding of customer projects, technical roadmaps, development processes, and purchasing cycles.
- Provide continuous technical support during pre-sales and post-sales phases in collaboration with application engineers and support teams.
- Coordinate technical workshops, training sessions, and product evaluations.
- Identify upselling and cross-selling opportunities across software tools, engineering services, AI solutions, and consulting offerings.
- Represent the company at customer meetings, industry events, exhibitions, seminars, and technical conferences.
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or above in one of the following fields:
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Control Engineering
- Related technical discipline
Master’s degree is preferred but not mandatory.
Required Technical Experience
The candidate should have hands-on knowledge or project experience in several of the following areas:
- Automotive embedded software development
- ECU development, integration, testing, or validation
- AUTOSAR Classic and/or AUTOSAR Adaptive
- CAN, CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet
- UDS, DoIP, OBD, diagnostic protocols
- Measurement, calibration, and data acquisition
- Test automation and continuous integration
- Embedded C/C++ software development
- Real-time systems or embedded Linux
- Functional safety and cybersecurity concepts
- ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434 knowledge is a plus
PLUS, AI-Related Experience
The candidate is preferred to have knowledge or practical exposure to AI-enabled engineering or software solutions, such as:
- AI application in automotive software development, testing, validation, diagnostics, or calibration
- Machine learning or data analytics for engineering data
- AI-assisted test automation
- Large language model applications in engineering workflows
- Automated requirement analysis or documentation generation
- AI-based simulation, scenario generation, or validation acceleration
- Data-driven calibration or optimization
- Experience promoting or implementing AI software solutions for enterprise customers
- Ability to explain AI concepts, business value, risks, and deployment requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Hands-on experience with Python, data analysis, machine learning frameworks, or cloud-based AI platforms is a plus.
Required Sales & Customer-Facing Skills
- Proven experience in technical sales, pre-sales, application engineering, solution consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles.
- Strong ability to understand customer technical challenges and convert them into solution proposals.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to conduct product demonstrations, technical workshops, and proof-of-concept projects.
- Strong consultative selling mindset.
- Ability to engage with both engineering teams and business decision-makers.
- Experience working with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, semiconductor companies, or software suppliers.
- Ability to manage multiple customer opportunities and priorities simultaneously.
- Self-driven, result-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced technical sales environment.
- Willingness to travel for customer visits, technical workshops, and industry events.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Vector, ETAS, dSPACE, MathWorks, Siemens, NI, or similar automotive software and testing toolchains.
- Experience in software-defined vehicle, zonal architecture, central compute, or domain controller projects.
- Experience in E/E architecture, ECU integration, vehicle communication, or diagnostic engineering.
- Previous responsibility for revenue targets, key account development, or business growth.
- Experience leading technical PoC projects or pilot deployments.
- Experience with AI engineering platforms.
- Familiarity with automotive development standards and processes, including:
- ASPICE
- ISO 26262
- ISO/SAE 21434
- AUTOSAR methodology
- Experience in international or cross-functional project environments.
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