Field Engineer

About the role:

As a Field Engineer, you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process. You will be a key part of the sales team, acting as a technical advisor and working with the product team as an advocate for your customers in the field. You will help our customers achieve tangible outcomes with Materialize, establishing a clear architectural vision and identifying compelling use cases, helping our customers realize value. You'll grow as a leader in your field while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenging problems. 

The impact you will have: 

• You will become an expert on cutting-edge streaming and database systems
• Lead your clients through evaluating and adopting Materialize
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Engage with the technical community (both internal and customer) by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups
• Together with your Account Executive, you will form successful relationships with clients to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre- or post-sales experience working with external clients
• As this is a broad and varied role, you will have proven expertise in data, such as data engineering, architecture, or data science
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and white-boarding
• Proficiency with SQL and some scripting languages like Python

• Significant experience using SQL databases, Flink, Kafka, and other data infrastructure.
• Experience working with high-performance, high availability systems.
• Experience working on a cloud product.