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

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.

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 the 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 from the development phase to the commercial release.
• Build and maintain positive customer 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, etc.).
• Prepare and present technical material to customers either on-site or virtually, 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.