Field Application Engineer (m/f/d) - Gilching

Allied Vision Italy; Gilching; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours with home‑offce

Bonus & benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Allied Vision is seeking a Field Application Engineer (m/f/d) in Gilching. You will provide proactive technical consulting for customers, partners, and distributors, support the sales team in closing projects, and document customer needs and market trends.

You will manage OEM projects end-to-end and build demos. You’ll create test setups, contribute to quotations, and deliver technical trainings across employees and clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in engineering disciplines such as industrial, electrical, mechatronics, computer vision or robotics.
• Experience with customer-facing activities or technical sales is a plus.
• Very good English skills, spoken and written.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% across the EMEA region.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive technical consulting for customers, partners, and distributors during pre-sales.
• Support the sales team in project acquisition and closure.
• Document customer needs, feature requests and market trends.
• Manage technical projects for OEM customers from requirements to release.
• Create test setups, evaluate results, and support quotation calculations.
• Deliver technical trainings and presentations for staff, customers, and partners.
• Build demos and act as technical contact for key accounts and large OEMs.

Skills

Team-oriented

Communication

Solution-focused

Customer-facing

20% travel

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in engineering (industrial/electrical/mechatronics/vision robotics)

Tools

OpenCV

Job description

• Building demos

Company // Career

Field Application Engineer (m/f/d) - Gilching

Gilching

Your tasks

• Proactive technical consulting for customers, sales partners, and distributors during the pre-sales process regarding hardware and software solutions
• Supporting the sales team in the acquisition and closing of projects
• Systematic collection of customer needs, feature requests, and market trends
• Assessment of economic potential in coordination with sales, followed by structured forwarding to Product and Project Management and R&D
• Documentation in the CRM system
• Technical project management for strategic OEM customers
• Assuming technical responsibility for the entire project lifecycle, from requirements analysis to release, while adhering to time and quality targets
• Systematic analysis of complex customer requirements and execution of Proof-of-Concept (PoC) tests
• Creation of technical test setups, evaluation of results, derivation of concrete solution proposals, and technical support for quotation calculations
• Authoring of Application Notes and Whitepapers
• Conception and delivery of technical training sessions and presentations for employees, customers, and partners
• Technical consulting at trade shows, including setup and teardown of demos, and conducting customer visits (internationally)
• Building demos
• Technical contact person for Key Accounts and large OEM customers
• Building and maintaining long-term, trusting technical partnerships
• Ability to collaborate with others when expertise from different areas is needed
• Supporting the AE / Support Teams

Your profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Vision & Robotics, or other Engineering Disciplines
• Team-oriented, communication- and solution-focused
• Confident demeanor in customer consulting and experience in direct customer contact, e.g., from technical sales, customer-facing hardware support, or project management
• Experience in machine vision cameras, frame grabbers or components is a plus
• Working knowledge of writing code in C++, C#, Python, or MATLAB for projects, Open CV is a plus
• Programming experience in Python or C, C++, C#, .NET desirable
• Willingness to travel to customers within the EMEA sales territory as needed (20%)
• Very good English skills, spoken and written

Your benefits

As a global industrial company with nine locations in Germany, Belgium, Canada, the USA, and Asia, we develop, produce, and distribute our highly specialized industrial cameras, modular image processing systems, and software solutions for machine vision, research, and high-tech applications. Behind our success are over 500 employees and a corporate culture that prioritizes both customer and employee needs and focuses on entrepreneurial thinking.

Benefit from exciting projects, a strong network, and diverse development opportunities. Cross-location and cross-disciplinary collaboration combines expertise and enables complete solutions from a single source. We place great value on an open and communicative atmosphere in which we leave enough room for cooperation, feedback, and ideas. We offer you a comprehensive insight into the company's activities so that you can work independently and actively contribute.

Become part of our team and help us shape the future of innovative image processing solutions—we look forward to receiving your application!

• an open and communicative atmosphere
• plenty of room for cooperation, feedback and ideas
• interesting projects based on your expertise & specialist area
• many development opportunities in an innovative company with flat hierarchies
• a very flexible working hours model incl. home office option
• fair pay incl. bonus & benefits

There are many good reasons to join Allied Vision. Use your potential for the next step in your career and become part of our team!