Senior Scientific Solution Engineer
von: Dectris Ltd.
Your Tasks
- Own time-to-value for prospective customers: from first technical discovery through trials to successful onboarding, make sure scientists see real value as fast as possible
- Lead technical discovery: get deep on each customer's science, instruments, and workflows so our solution maps to what they actually need
- Design and run trials and proof-of-value engagements on customers' own data and problems
- Run workshops and hands-on sessions that turn evaluators into confident, successful users
- Build and expand a network to scout and originate new opportunities in sync with a scaling product and with that a growing target audience
- Be the credible scientific-technical voice within the sales motion, translating fluently between researchers, engineers, and commercial stakeholders
- Feed field insight back into product and science, sharpening both what we build and how we position it
- Travel to customer sites and laboratories to do this work where the science happens
- Use AI and coding to build the demos, scripts, and tooling that shorten every trial
Your Skills
- 5+ years in business development, sales/solutions engineering, or a comparable customer-facing technical role
- Strong domain expertise in materials science and/or structural biology
- Strong, fast coding ability: you build tooling, scripts, and demos quickly and cleanly
- A deep drive to understand customers' science and problems better than they expect you to
- Communication that works with everyone, from bench scientists to executives
- Comfort using AI tools in your work
- Excellent English, and willingness to travel internationally up to ~50%
Bonus – we'd love it if you also bring:
- PhD in a scientific domain (structural biology, materials science, crystallography, electron microscopy) or experience selling scientific software
- Experience having applied AI in a scientific or product context
- Experience running trials, proofs-of-concept, or technical onboarding
We Offer
- A successful and growing high tech company in an international, scientific environment
- To join the global leader in HPC X-ray detectors for science and industry. Our Developers design cutting-edge detectors to support the state of the art science and technology
- An international work environment formed by more than 170 experienced engineers, scientists and other professionals. The company languages are German and English
- Excellent, flexible working arrangements to enable professional development and personal life balance
- An attractive working environment: modern infrastructure with wheelchair-accessible rooms, small fitness room, underground car park, subsidised meals, free snacks and drinks, various company events, internal and external training, home office options, after-work beers and other joint leisure activities
