Sales Engineer - Embedded Software

We have an immediate need for a Sales Engineer to maintain and expand embedded software opportunities, while managing customer relationships to facilitate long-term partnerships. You will be utilizing your deep automotive embedded software technical knowledge to:

• Assess current and prospective customer needs to uncover requirements for our solutions
• Provide product information. Articulate the technical value proposition and key differentiating capabilities to prospective customers
• Identify, specify and propose projects and/or solutions to assist customers integrating Vector software into their products or processes
• Initiate and provide customer quotes in a timely manner, monitor status and verify accuracy, follow up on quotes and purchase orders as needed
• Assess market potential by qualifying customers; expand sales in existing accounts by introducing new products, processes and services
• Manage and expand business with key OEM/ Tier 1 customers; identify needs to be filled and work with internal groups to fill these needs
• Enter product, customer and other similar data in SAP or other Company systems or databases
• Facilitate information flow between functions to expedite orders to ensure successful order fulfillment; ultimately ensuring the customers' expectations have been met
• Contribute information to market strategy by monitoring competitive products and providing feedback from customers
• Collaborates with the sales team to achieve overall sales objectives

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years of customer-facing sales experience
• Positive, customer-service oriented attitude
• Effectively listen and communicate technical information
• Recognize, develop, and propose embedded software solutions to existing or potential customers
• Positive, customer-service oriented attitude
• Ability to work with a sense of urgency to provide timely responses to customer inquiries
• Effectively listen and communicate technical information
• Detail oriented and capable to multi-task in a fast-paced team environment
• Excellent interpersonal, team, and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability and motivation to continuously expand product knowledge as needed

• Available to travel 5 - 10% of the time for trade shows, customer visits, etc
• B.S. in EE/SE/CE/CS or related field or equivalent combination of education/experience

Preferred qualifications:

• 2+ years in automotive software/electronics environment
• Knowledge of OEM/Tier1 automotive ECU development and testing process
• Experience with SAP and CRM
• Experience with AUTOSAR and in-vehicle networks (CAN, LIN, Ethernet, etc)
• Strong understanding of OEM/ Tier 1 customer embedded software challenges and market requirements such as ASPICE, ISO26262, etc

Benefits

Vector offers an excellent Total Rewards package! This is an excellent opportunity for the right person.

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