ICEYE

Sales Engineer – Missions Business

ICEYE

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Espoo • 🇫🇮 Finland

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Job Level

Junior

About the role

  • **Role highlights:**
  • - **Role:** Sales Engineer
  • - **Department:** Product Management - Missions Line of Business
  • - **Location:** Espoo, Finland (preferred), or ICEYE Offices (Poland, Spain, Japan, Greece). Remote within the European Union possible.
  • - **Reports to**: Director of Sales Engineering, Missions
  • - **Employment type: **Permanent
  • - **Working type: **Hybrid (2-day remote policy)
  • - **Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)**
  • **The Mission of the Senior Sales Engineer**Enable ICEYE to win mission opportunities by defining, validating, and clearly communicating tailored technical solutions to prospective customers.
  • This role exists to bridge customer mission needs with ICEYE’s technical capabilities — ensuring every proposal, concept, and analysis is accurate, credible, and compelling. You will work at the intersection of Sales, Product, and Engineering, shaping EO mission concepts and supporting customer engagements from early discussions through final proposals.

Requirements

  • **Expected outcomes & competencies**
  • **Outcomes:**
  • - **Deliver high-quality technical proposals** for mission opportunities, including complete, accurate responses to RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.
  • - **Run and integrate mission analyses and simulations** (coverage studies, payload performance scenarios, feasibility checks) to validate solutions.
  • - **Provide timely technical support to Missions Sales** throughout the sales cycle, ensuring clear, consistent, and compelling solution narratives.
  • - **Strengthen customer engagement** through well-structured technical presentations, clear communication, and professional handling of clarifications.
  • - **Be recognized as a reliable contributor** within the Missions Sales Engineering team, enabling ICEYE to win critical global mission opportunities.
  • **Role-Specific Competencies:**
  • **Technical / Domain Competence**
  • - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • - 0–4 years of experience in sales engineering, mission analysis, systems engineering, or related technical roles.
  • - Hands-on experience with STK, Savoir, or similar mission/systems-level modelling tools (strong plus).
  • - Understanding of satellite systems, EO missions, and space mission architectures.
  • - Ability to interpret technical requirements and develop structured, feasible mission concepts.
  • - Comfortable analysing technical inputs and presenting results clearly.
  • **Skills and Attributes:**
  • - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • - Strong customer focus, with the ability to translate needs into technical solutions.
  • - High attention to detail, structured thinking, and problem-solving mindset.
  • - Proactive, curious, accountable, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced global environment.
  • - Collaborative team player with strong cross-functional communication skills.
  • - Willingness to travel regularly (20–30%).
  • **Key Competencies:**
  • In addition to the requirements above, we evaluate candidates on these key qualities throughout the hiring process:
  • - **Intellectual Firepower:** Rapidly comprehends, structures and synthesizes complex information, draws accurate conclusions, and communicates them with clarity.
  • - **Passion & Work Ethic: **Brings sustained motivation, resilience, and high personal standards to every challenge.
  • - **Ownership & Action:** Assumes full accountability for outcomes, acting decisively, and ensuring commitments are delivered.
  • - **Team Player:** Works collaboratively across teams, contributing to shared success, and engaging in constructive debate.
  • - **Integrity & Growth Mindset:** Operates with transparency and humility, learns from setbacks, and actively seeks opportunities to grow.
  • **Application Process:**
  • - **Recruiter interview**
  • - **Hiring Manager interview**
  • - **Take home task + presentation**
  • - **VP interview**
Benefits
  • **What We Offer at ICEYE**
  • At ICEYE, you will join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. We know that we will succeed only through exceptional people in our team — which is why your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority.
  • As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. You will benefit from continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture that values collaboration, curiosity, and integrity. ICEYE is a place where your contributions have a visible impact, and where we celebrate success together.
  • **Benefits:**
  • - A job that matters in a dynamic Defence Technology and Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
  • - An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
  • - Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
  • - Benefits vary by location. Your recruiter will provide a detailed overview for your specific country during the hiring process.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
sales engineeringmission analysissystems engineeringtechnical proposalsmission simulationspayload performancefeasibility checksstructured mission conceptstechnical requirements interpretationsatellite systems understanding
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationcustomer focusattention to detailstructured thinkingproblem-solvingproactive mindsetcollaborative teamworkcross-functional communicationaccountability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace EngineeringMaster’s degree in Aerospace EngineeringBachelor’s degree in PhysicsMaster’s degree in PhysicsBachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster’s degree in Electrical Engineering