Sales Engineer
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Darwin Space are currently hiring for a Sales Engineer on behalf of a business in Poland.
Position Overview
We’re looking for a Sales Engineer to be the technical front line of their commercial team. You’ll join customer calls, lead the technical conversation, and work with customers to nail down what their mission really needs. Once an opportunity is real, you’ll translate it into a clear brief for their product team and own the proposal through to submission. You sit at the intersection of engineering and sales, credible from the first call, and the person who turns a technical conversation into a deal. You’ll work closely with their Business Development team and report into Commercial.
Your Daily Impact
* Being the technical voice on customer calls, leading discussions, answering the hard questions, and building credibility from the first conversation.
* Working with customers to define and refine their mission requirements over calls and email.
* Translating customer needs into clear briefs for the product team to configure.
* Owning proposals end to end, pulling together technical and commercial content into a sharp, on-time response.
* Representing the company at industry events, conferences, and customer site visits.
* Bringing customer insights and market signals back to the team to sharpen how we sell and position BOOSTER.
Is This You?
* A space engineering background, propulsion experience is a strong plus.
* 2+ years in a technical sales, sales engineering, or customer-facing engineering role or strong engineering experience and the instinct to move toward the commercial side.
* You can lead a technical conversation with engineering customers and hold your own from the first call.
* A commercial instinct, you read the room, pick up buying signals, and know how to move an opportunity forward.
* Strong written communication, proposals and requirement exchanges are a big part of the job.
* Happy to travel for customer meetings and industry events.
* Fluent English. Comfortable in an international, technical environment.
Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
James Godfrey