QNX, Embedded Field Application/Sales Engineer (Industrial/medical)

BlackBerry UK Ltd; England; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Field Application Engineer to join their European Sales team. This role involves working directly with customers, providing technical expertise, and driving the adoption of innovative QNX software solutions. You will be the key technical resource, managing customer relationships, delivering pre-sales support, and representing the company at trade shows and webinars. If you are passionate about embedded systems and enjoy building relationships, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in technology-driven industries.

Qualifications

• Experience in interfacing between customers and engineering.
• Strong software development skills in embedded systems with C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between customers and QNX teams, driving revenue through QNX adoption.
• Provide technical expertise in pre-sale and post-sale capacities.

Skills

Embedded System Development

Real-Time Programming

C/C++ Programming

Interpersonal Skills

Customer Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Linux Development Environments

RTOS Solutions

Job description

Worker Sub-Type: Regular

Job Description: UK remote based

QNX enhances the human experience and amplifies technology-driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software-defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support and services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. QNX technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems, including more than 255 million vehicles on the road today. QNX software is trusted across industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defense. Think embedded, think QNX!

QNX was born in embedded, and provides time-tested and trusted foundation software, including our deterministic micro-kernel real-time operating system (RTOS), safety-certified products, middleware and security solutions, all purpose-built for embedded systems. Global leaders such as Audi, BMW, General Electric, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin depend on QNX technology for their in-car electronics, medical devices, industrial automation systems, network routers, and other mission- or life-critical applications.

Are you the person we're looking for? Working as a Field Application Engineer, you will be working directly with customers as a technical account owner to drive revenue through the adoption of QNX software and services as part of the European Sales team. You'll be the key technical resource on the team, working in a pre and post-sales capacity and will be responsible for owning customer technical relationships, advising customers in design decisions and representing QNX at regional events, trade shows, and webinars.

In this role, you will:

• Be the face of QNX, acting as a liaison between customers and QNX R&D, Engineering Services, and Product Management teams
• Provide technical expertise and knowledge of QNX solutions to customers and prospects in both a pre-sale and post-sale capacity
• Support wider sales team in a technical and consultative manner including analyzing customer design requirements, offering feasibility/ scope assessments to customer requests, and other activities as required
• Manage the customer’s technical requirements (through various support and engineering departments) from the development phase to the commercial release
• Build and maintain positive customer (technical staff) relations to encourage new development projects and appropriate upgrades
• Deliver pre-sales software development work (demos, benchmarking, high-level customer design assistance, initial environment set-up, on occasion may be asked to participate in select development relating to customer-specific needs, etc.)
• Prepare and present technical material to customers either on-site or virtual, and represent BlackBerry QNX at regional trade shows, speaking engagements, webinars or in concert with our large customers
• Develop, and maintain a technical knowledge base of competitive intelligence. Provide recommendations to Marketing and Sales on technical requirements to constantly improve and enhance customer experience
• Travel. Some travel to customer sites is expected.

You will have:

• Experience in interfacing between customers and engineering
• Demonstrated software development, design and architecture experience with a focus on embedded system development, real-time programming, or similar low-level programming with C, Assembly, or C++
• Experience working in Linux development environments (QNX experience would be an asset but not essential).
• Strong and influential interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Industrial or Medical segment vertical market experience
• Technical experience in RTOS solutions from competitive providers such as Wind River, Green Hills, or similar vendors would be deemed an asset but not essential
• Broad general knowledge of the high-tech and the embedded industry
• Thorough knowledge and ongoing awareness of current market concepts and practices
• General and strategic business management, creative and visionary planning, analysis and decision-making, effective leadership, communications and customer relations skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar, or equivalent meaningful experience

Interested to learn more? We'd love to hear from you.

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Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40