Application Engineer - Technical Customer Lead
Leads technical customer engagements for automotive and autonomy-focused enterprise accounts, owning account strategy, customer relationships, requirements gathering, and engineering prioritization. Requires 3+ years in application engineering or customer-facing software development plus automotive OEM, supplier, autonomous vehicle, or robotics experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own account strategy for major enterprise customers.
- Manage executive and leadership relationships.
- Understand customer development needs and autonomy use cases, and propose effective applications of the company's products.
- Ensure customer needs are supported by the broader engineering team through effective prioritization.
- Collaborate with sales teams to gather requirements through technical discussions and workshops.
- Explore new product development areas based on strategic understanding of the customer landscape.
Requirements
- Experience working with automotive OEMs or suppliers.
- Prior experience in autonomous vehicle or robotics development domains.
- 3+ years as an application engineer or developer with experience interacting with end customers.
- Familiarity with best practices in large-scale software development.
- Strong communication skills and a focus on solving customer problems.
Nice to Have
- Background in technical sales or application engineering for simulation products.
- Prior experience in autonomous vehicle development domains.
Compensation and Benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation per year.
- Free daily lunch and dinner in the office, plus breakfast, snacks, and drinks.
- Supplemental private health insurance, including specialist and surgery coverage, long-term sickness income insurance, premium waiver insurance, and group life insurance.
- Occupational pension contributions of 4.5% of salary up to the statutory income ceiling and 30% above it.
- 9,360 SEK annual learning and development budget.
- 5,615 SEK annual fitness budget.
- 25 free Lyra coaching or therapy sessions per year for employees and dependents.
- Generous parental leave in addition to statutory parental leave.
Skills
Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Simulation, Large-Scale Software Development, Technical Sales, Application Engineering, Account Strategy, Customer Relationship Management, Requirements Gathering, Software Development
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