Senior Technical Solutions Engineer
Role Overview
Secondmind builds data-efficient Engineering AI software that helps teams make better design and performance decisions faster.
Our Active Learning system helps engineers calibrate and explore the design space of increasingly complex physical systems, reducing simulation and testing requirements without compromising quality.
As our Senior Technical Solutions Engineer, you'll support and expand our automotive, off-highway and engine customer base across Europe, helping customers evaluate, adopt and realise value from our AI-driven Design Space Exploration and Calibration solutions.
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What you’ll do
- Lead pre-sales and frontline customer support engagements, including discovery workshops, solution mapping and tailored product demonstrations.
- Assess technical fit on customer problems, including current workflows, constraints and effort required, then scope and lead the evaluation, PoC or pilot.
- Identify opportunities to apply our platform across the engineering V-cycle, in automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway and powertrain development.
- Work with sales leadership to develop and deliver technical presentations, proposals, demonstrations and supporting collateral.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers through onboarding, deployment and adoption.
- Feed customer insight back to Product Management and ML Engineering to influence features and roadmap priorities.
- Represent Secondmind at customer meetings, industry conferences and technical workshops across Europe.
- What would make you thrive in this role
- You combine deep technical credibility with genuine enjoyment of customer-facing work. You're comfortable leading workshops, running demos, and explaining AI and calibration concepts to both engineers and executives.
- You're curious about customer problems and would rather prove value through hands-on PoCs and pilots than just pitch. You're as comfortable working with our ML and Product teams as you are representing us at conferences and customer sites.
- You bring a consultative, trusted-advisor mindset, you're at home in the pace of a growing company, and you take real satisfaction in seeing a customer succeed because of your technical guidance.
What you'll bring
- We care more about what you've done than about qualifications or years in a title. If you meet most of these but not all, we'd still like to hear from you.
- Essential
- Hands-on engine or powertrain calibration experience, including model-based calibration, DoE and optimization, using tools such as ETAS INCA, ETAS ASCMO or AVL CAMEO.
- Proven experience in a technical role in automotive, commercial vehicle, powertrain or off-highway engineering, including the use of CAE tools.
- Customer-facing technical experience, such as pre-sales, solutions or applications engineering, or technical consulting.
- Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
- Proven ability to assess technical fit on unfamiliar customer problems and judge what is worth attempting.
- Desirable
- Experience applying machine learning to engineering optimization or design exploration, such as surrogate modelling or Bayesian optimization.
- Familiarity with engine simulation and CAE tools such as GT-SUITE or Simcenter.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience (Master's preferred).
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience (Master's preferred).
About Secondmind
Cloud-native Engineering AI for automotive vehicle design and calibration.
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