Technical Sales Engineer

Be a Part of Simulating Future Innovations

We at COMSOL create our own simulation software and provide it to technology enterprises, government facilities, and academic research facilities. Our flagship product, COMSOL Multiphysics, is the premier modeling tool for simulating technical applications in almost all engineering industries and scientific disciplines. Users of the COMSOL software are the preeminent engineers and scientists in their respective fields who require simulations to advance their innovations and objectives. They invent and optimize new and existing processes and products that matter to the future of our world.

COMSOL is seeking a Technical Sales Engineer to join the sales team in Bengaluru office who will be able to inform sell, support engineers, scientists, academicians on the usefulness of simulation using COMSOL software.

Primary Responsibilities

There are multiple open positions to handle the following sectors:

• Sales in premier government labs
• Sales in premier academic institutions

Pre-Sales Leads Qualification and Prospect Support

• Use your insight, communication skills, and technical acumen to proactively qualify leads marked as prospective customers.
• Methodically identify and qualify simulation requirements for prospective customers through meetings and demonstrations.
• Participate in onsite and web-based customer meetings, workshops, and other marketing/sales events arranged by the team.
• Articulate business cases for the unique capabilities offered by COMSOL, explain licensing models, and help negotiate terms and conditions with legal and procurement departments wherever necessary.
• Support working with prospective customers on evaluations of the COMSOL software, or facilitate such evaluations through working in collaboration with COMSOL applications engineers.
• Have the willingness and ability to travel for limited periods of time to meet current and potential customers in order to run COMSOL-sponsored events and activities in India.

Post-Sales Support and Customer Relations Management

• Promote effective technical support together with COMSOL applications engineers on the use of the COMSOL software for customers applications.
• Communicate with existing customers on a regular basis to manage their relationship with COMSOL, keeping them informed about new features and technology in the COMSOL software, as well as events and other useful activities.
• Find new opportunities to sell existing and new COMSOL software and technology to existing customers, their colleagues and other departments within their organizations.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's/masters degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or a physical science. Engineering degree in mechanical, electrical, or chemical will be preferred.
• Course work based on one or more of the following or its equivalent: Computational analyses, modeling, and simulations through numerical methods, such as the Finite Element Method (FEM/FEA), to be used in applications, such as fluid mechanics or dynamics, transport phenomena, heat and mass transfer, thermal engineering, thermodynamics, structural mechanics or analysis, acoustics, chemical or electrochemical reaction engineering, applied physics or mathematics, or any application that may be mathematically defined by PDE or ODEs.
• Prior sales experience for minimum one year. Sales experience in Engineering Software Solutions (CAD/CAE) is preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Personal growth

Supporting your success in your role as a Sales Engineer will be other sales engineers, applications engineers, software developers who occupy the top echelons of their areas of expertise. You will see and participate in the development and operation of many and varied cutting-edge new technologies. As a sales engineer, you will work with some of the most preeminent engineers and scientists in their respective fields, who are simulating innovations and ideas for the future.