Sales Engineer - 12-month Fixed Term Contract

An experienced Sales Engineer with at least 1-3 years of customer-facing experience is needed to join our team at Spire, a leading space-to-cloud analytics company based in Glasgow, on a full-time, contract basis.

You will join a driven, hands-on, and collaborative Aviation team and support the introduction of competitive and unique data products to the market.

This position is a 12-month Fixed-Term Contract with the potential to become permanent. The successful candidate will be required to attend Spire’s Glasgow office a minimum of 3 days a week on a hybrid 5-day-a-week work policy.

This is an excellent opportunity to progress your career with a well-established company!

About Us

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

About the Role

You will engage directly with both sales and customers daily to understand customer requirements, needs, and expectations. You will also work closely with Product and Engineering to develop and deliver state-of-the-art customer-driven solutions that differentiate Spire as a data and analytics provider.

You will feel comfortable pulling together as part of a small, friendly, agile and focused team to achieve shared goals. Successful candidates will have a good balance of experience with SaaS applications, APIs, big data and providing data and SaaS solutions to global customers.

Job Description:

As an Aviation Solution Sales Engineer, you will be:

• The primary technical contact and product expert for customers on behalf of Spire's Aviation products
• With 100+ million aircraft positional updates from around the world connected every day, you will immerse yourself in the data
• Enable and support customer access to Aviation APIs and data solutions
• Help solve challenging customer questions around the nature and condition of the data
• Collaborate daily with the product and engineering team and create visualisations
• Support prospective and current customers

Required Experience:

• 1-3 years experience in a customer-facing engineering or pre-sales role
• Data analysis and reporting
• Experience writing knowledge-based articles or technical documentation
• Intellectual curiosity in data science best practices and the aviation industry to assist our customers and to help shape the way we handle our data
• Experience and comfort interfacing with customers via email/video call/in person and building relationships

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with Aviation tracking or GIS data or similar
• 1-3 years using APIs programmatically, testing and pulling data
• 1-3 years experience in the SQL query of databases, using joins, groups, and aggregations
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services
• Familiarity with Big Data analytics platforms (Big Query, etc.)
• GIS visualisation of high-volume positional data (Kepler, etc.)
• Writing scripts in Bash or similar
• Writing in Python, including exchanging data from APIs

Required Skills:

• Passion for aviation, travel, and data in general
• Desire to drive results, move quickly to implement ideas and cater to customer requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Strong bias for action
• Readiness to go above and beyond for your teammates across different disciplines

Sounds interesting? Click the APPLY button to send your CV for immediate consideration.

Candidates with previous experience or job titles, including; Technical Sales Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Sales Engineer, Pre-Sales Engineer, Customer Engineer, Client Solutions Engineer, Electronic Trading Support Engineer, Front Office Technology Consultant, and Sales Technologist will also be considered.