
QNX - Field Application Engineer (General Embedded)
- Seattle, WA
- $141,000-188,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be the face of the company, acting as a liaison between customers and QNX R&D, Engineering Services, and Product Management departments
- Provide technical expertise and knowledge of QNX solutions to customers and prospects in both a pre-sale and post-sale capacity
- Support 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 (through various support and engineering departments) from the development phase to the commercial release
- Build and maintain positive customer (technical staff) 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, on occasion may be asked to participate in select development relating to customer-specific needs, etc.)
- Prepare and present technical material to customers either on-site or virtual, 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
- 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++
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar, or equivalent meaningful experience
- Working in Linux development environments
- 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
- Broad general knowledge of the high-tech and the embedded industry
- Thorough knowledge and ongoing awareness of current marketing concepts and practices
- General and strategic business management, creative and visionary planning, analysis and decision-making, effective leadership, communications and customer relations skills
- Business trips are required as needed, averaging 25% of the time