[Hiring] PreSales Engineer ECAD @ Aras Corporation

Role Description

The PreSales Engineer ECAD is a customer-facing technical role responsible for driving and supporting ECAD-related business opportunities across EMEA. The role focuses on understanding customer requirements, shaping solution concepts, and demonstrating the value of ECAD-PLM integration. As a trusted advisor, you work closely with Sales, Services, and Product teams to ensure technically sound and commercially viable solutions. In addition, you coordinate a small PreSales team, ensuring consistent quality and execution across all customer engagements.

*** The role can be performed fully remotely within Germany, France, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, UK, Italy ***

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support and drive ECAD-related sales opportunities across EMEA
• Conduct customer workshops, discovery sessions, and technical presentations
• Translate customer requirements into solution concepts (ECAD / PLM integration)
• Design and deliver demos, proof of concepts, and technical evaluations
• Support RFI/RFP/RFQ processes and contribute to proposals and Statements of Work
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for customers evaluating ECAD integration and digital engineering solutions
• Coordinate and guide a small PreSales team to ensure quality and consistency
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Services, and Product Management, ensuring smooth handover to delivery
• Build and continuously improve reusable demo assets, PoC approaches, and PreSales content
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, internal enablement, and customer/partner-facing activities such as webinars or events

Qualifications

• Customer-oriented trusted advisor with the ability to build credibility across engineers, IT, and business stakeholders
• Technically curious and hands-on, with the ability to quickly learn new tools and customer environments
• Strong communicator who can simplify complex ECAD-PLM topics and connect them to business value
• Collaborative team player, working effectively across Sales, PreSales, Services, Customer Success, Product Management, and partners
• Structured and proactive mindset with strong ownership and stakeholder management skills
• Pragmatic problem solver who balances technical ambition with feasibility and delivery reality
• Willing to share knowledge, enable others, and continuously improve ways of working
• Self-driven, resilient, and comfortable in a fast-paced, performance-oriented environment

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in PreSales, Solution Consulting, or Technical Sales (e.g. PLM, ECAD, Engineering Software)
• Strong understanding of ECAD/EDA processes and integration into PLM environments
• Experience delivering demos, workshops, and proof of concepts
• Hands-on experience with ECAD/EDA tools (e.g. Altium, Cadence, Siemens, EPLAN or similar)
• Understanding of product data management, digital thread, and enterprise integration concepts
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or comparable qualification
• Fluent English, additional European languages are a plus
• Willingness to travel across EMEA