Senior Scientific Solution Engineer

Dectris

About the role

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

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Your Future Team

DECTRIS D.LAB Team

The DECTRIS D.LAB Team accelerate scientific discoveries by bringing science labs' data, tools, compute, and analyses into one place. We develop a platform to empower scientists around the world to efficiently get the most out of their data in a collaborative manner. DECTRIS D.LAB has entered the market and is scaling up.

DECTRIS Ltd. · Taefernweg 1 · 5405 Baden-Daettwil

www.dectris.com · Phone: +41 56 500 21 00 · jobs@dectris.com

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