This is an extremely collaborative role that will require meaningfully engaging with your engineering partners' areas of expertise (hardware design and manufacturing, electronics, embedded software) while also maintaining a business and market opportunity perspective including partnering with sales and marketing to lead new product capabilities from concept to commercial success.
What you'll do:
- Perform market research, customer research, and competitor research to identify new applications and market opportunities.
- Conduct internal capabilities analysis with the internal R&D team to inform discovery work.
- Assist in defining new hardware product configurations and major features.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Product Teams.
- Communicate initial product insights and business justification to stakeholders across the organization.
- Seek out, analyze, and quantify user needs and product opportunities.
- Understand our customers and key industries completely.
- Provide a recommendation to leadership on go/no-go based on your insights and analysis.
About you:
- 1-3 years of product, engineering or applications engineering experience
- Excellent written and verbal communicator with attention to detail where it matters.
- Can work equally effectively with collaborators across engineering, sales, and marketing.
- Can work fast and know how to prototype.
- Can be a consistent, data-backed voice of the customer within Lumafield.
- Highly independent, but can seek guidance when you need it.
- Are decisive, even with incomplete information.
- Are known for following through.
Bonus:
- Knowledge in engineering and manufacturing industries.
- Experience developing and shipping software-driven hardware products.
- Skills or experience across go-to-market (sales, marketing, trade shows, video production).
- An interesting previous experience that gives you valuable insights in this new role.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of product, engineering, or applications engineering experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, sales, and marketing
- Ability to work quickly and prototype
- Ability to provide data-backed customer and product insights
- Ability to work independently and seek guidance when needed
- Decisiveness with incomplete information
- Demonstrated follow-through
- Knowledge of engineering and manufacturing industries
- Experience developing and shipping software-driven hardware products
- Go-to-market experience in sales, marketing, trade shows, or video production
What We Do
Lumafield is here to make it possible for humanity to solve our hardest problems as quickly as possible. Lumafield has developed the world's first accessible X-Ray CT scanner for engineers. Lumafield’s easy-to-use scanner and cloud-based software give engineers the ability to see their work clearly, inside and out, at an extremely affordable price. Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. Founded in 2019, our team includes world-class researchers and industrial designers, PhDs, founders of successful startups, and zero egos. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and has an office in San Francisco, CA.
