What are the responsibilities and job description for the Defense Applications Engineer (f/m/d) position at Meinberg?
Meinberg is a world leader in network time synchronization. Our products are deployed in mission-critical applications around the world including power grids, stock exchanges and banks, live TV and radio programs, air traffic control systems, and hyper-scale data centers. Meinberg products provide time and frequency for hundreds of millions of mobile devices, computers, and communication networks.
Meinberg is a German company, headquartered in Bad Pyrmont, Germany with a design center in Vienna, Austria and an office in Bangkok, Thailand. Propelled by our growth, Meinberg has recently established our US headquarters in Santa Rosa, California and is expanding quickly.
Job Opening: Defense Applications Engineer
Meinberg synchronization products are used extensively in defense applications. From synchronization for distributed radar, sensors on ships, and cameras at missile test ranges, the defense industry has various applications of time synchronization, some of which are critical to their operations. The Meinberg USA Defense Applications Engineer will lead our effort to support defense customers and grow our business in this market.
Responsibilities:
- Advocate and evangelize Meinberg synchronization technology to defense industry customers at tradeshows, technical conferences, and webinars.
- Support customer needs for defense synchronization products through the sales process by explaining technology, proposing solutions, and supporting installations and configurations.
- Contribute to defining Meinberg USA’s defense market exploration strategy
- Drive and develop strategic partnerships with vendors that help promote Meinberg products to end customers
- Become an expert on defense synchronization needs, Meinberg products, industry standards, and competitive solutions and leverage this expertise into compelling collateral.
- Assist R&D by engaging with customers on new technology developments, including hardware, software, and cybersecurity recommendations
- Drive roadmap and product definition for future Meinberg defense products.
Requirements:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Good customer engagement and communications skills, patient and diplomatic, service-oriented
- Strong understanding of the defense industry – both technology and industry
- Strong understanding of computers and networking technology, including switches and routers and TCP/IP and Ethernet
- Good high-level understanding of software development and basic understanding of security protocols
- Technical aptitude & attention to detail
- Dependable and hard working
- Desire to contribute to a growing company and share the work and challenges
- Preferred: Knowledge of timing technology: GPS/GNSS, NTP, PTP
- Preferred: Experience with time synchronization in a specific application in the defense industry
This job is an opportunity to join a small and growing team and contribute to our growth as we establish our US headquarters. Meinberg USA has a fun, friendly, creative, and collaborative working environment with a high mix of exciting challenges, the opportunity to learn new skills, and the excitement of wearing many hats. Meinberg respects and encourages diversity.
Please submit resumes to jobs@meinberg-usa.com