Sales Engineer / Simulation Expert

Visual Components; Île-de-France; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible work model within France

Competitive compensation with bonus

Career development opportunities

International, collaborative team

Résumé du poste

Visual Components, part of the KUKA Group, seeks a commercially minded Sales Engineer to grow our France market. You will partner with sales teams to demonstrate how our software supports production design, testing and optimisation, and help customers adopt Visual Components successfully.

You will travel within France and occasionally Europe, delivering compelling demonstrations, running workshops, and translating technical capabilities into concrete business value for manufacturers, system

Qualifications

• Experience in technical sales, pre-sales, solution engineering or customer-facing industrial software roles.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing, automation, robotics or production engineering.
• Experience with 3D simulation, CAD, digital manufacturing or robotics simulation.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into technical solutions and business value.
• Excellent presentation, demonstration and workshop facilitation skills.

Responsabilités

• Support new sales opportunities by qualifying needs and shaping technical solutions with sales teams.
• Deliver tailored product demonstrations for various industries and processes.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, workshops and solution presentations.
• Support trials, proofs of concept and technical evaluations.
• Assist customers in adopting and expanding use of Visual Components across their operations.

Connaissances

Technical sales

Manufacturing automation

3D simulation

Customer discovery

Presentation skills

French & English fluency

Travel willingness

Outils

CAD

Python scripting

Description du poste

Visual Components is a key technology partner to many of the world’s most ambitious manufacturers, system integrators, and machine builders. Our mission is to help them design, optimise, and deliver production systems faster, more efficiently, and with less risk in an industry evolving at an unprecedented pace.

Our software enables the design, testing, and optimisation of production lines with a level of speed and accuracy that is difficult to match, covering factory simulation, virtual commissioning, and offline programming.

Manufacturers using Visual Components significantly reduce both time and risk in critical investment decisions. System integrators gain a clear competitive advantage by designing and delivering better systems, faster, and with stronger visualisation to support their sales process.

As part of the KUKA Group, one of the world’s leading industrial robotics companies, we operate at a scale and level of impact that few in the industry can match.

We are trusted by over 2,400 organisations globally and contribute to advancing industrial automation through partnerships with leading academic and research institutions.

Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, with offices in Germany, the United States, and Japan.

The role and the team

We are looking for a commercially minded Sales Engineer / Simulation Expert to support the growth of Visual Components in France.

This is primarily a customer-facing technical sales role. You will work closely with Visual Components sales teams, KUKA sales teams, and customers to demonstrate how our software can solve real manufacturing and automation challenges.

You will support both new customer acquisition and the development of existing accounts. A key part of the role will be helping customers adopt Visual Components successfully, identify additional use cases and expand their use of our solutions.

You will be based in France and will focus mainly on the French market, while collaborating with the wider Visual Components Simulation Experts team.

Your impact

Support new sales opportunities

• Work alongside Visual Components and KUKA sales teams to qualify customer needs and shape the right technical solution.
• Deliver compelling product demonstrations tailored to the customer’s industry, processes and business challenges.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, workshops and solution presentations.
• Support trials, proofs of concept and technical evaluations.
• Translate technical capabilities into clear customer value and business outcomes.
• Help sales teams address technical questions and overcome objections throughout the sales process.
• Participate in customer meetings, exhibitions, trade shows and industry events.

Drive customer adoption and expansion

• Work with existing customers to increase the adoption and value of Visual Components solutions.
• Understand how customers currently use the software and identify additional teams, applications and use cases.
• Deliver onboarding, training, workshops and best-practice guidance.
• Support account development plans together with the relevant sales owner.
• Help customers build internal capability and become successful long-term users of Visual Components.
• Technical support work: support our customers with productsupportrelated queries.

The skills you will bring

• Experience in technical sales, pre-sales, solution engineering, application engineering or customer-facing industrial software roles.
• A strong understanding of manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, production engineering or related disciplines.
• Experience with 3D simulation, CAD, digital manufacturing, robotics simulation or comparable engineering software.
• The ability to understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions and business value.
• Strong presentation, demonstration and workshop facilitation skills.
• A commercial mindset and an interest in helping customers expand their use of technology.
• Confidence working alongside sales teams and supporting customer opportunities.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
• Fluency in French and strong professional English.
• Willingness to travel regularly within France and occasionally elsewhere in Europe.

Ideal Candidate Will Have

• Previous experience with Visual Components or another manufacturing simulation platform.
• Experience with factory simulation, virtual commissioning or offline robot programming.
• Knowledge of PLCs, industrial connectivity or robot programming.
• Experience working with manufacturers, system integrators or machine builders.
• Basic Python or other scripting experience.

The Team

You will work closely with the Visual Components European sales organisation, the KUKA sales organisation, and the global Simulation Experts team.

The role combines strong local market ownership with access to an international community of simulation, automation and manufacturing experts.

Perks of joining us

• A highly visible role supporting the growth of Visual Components in France.
• The opportunity to work at the intersection of industrial software, robotics and manufacturing transformation.
• Close collaboration with Visual Components and KUKA sales teams.
• A flexible working model within France.
• Competitive compensation, including a performance-related component.
• Opportunities to develop your technical, commercial and industry expertise.
• An international, collaborative and low-hierarchy working environment.
• A stable organisation backed by the KUKA Group.