Freelancing Engagement: Technical Marketing & MRD Specialist (m/f/d)

• Research the global smart sensor and Edge AI landscape and identify relevant market segments, applications and customer groups.

• Analyze emerging applications for intelligent and autonomous sensors.

• Investigate industry trends, technology adoption and customer requirements.

• Identify high-value use cases where local or edge AI processing provides tangible benefits.

• Identify opportunities where GEMESYS’s Analog Edge AI architecture creates differentiated value, also beyond sensors.

• Research competing technologies and alternative solutions, with the support of our engineers.

Customer & Stakeholder Requirements

• Identify and structure customer pain points and unmet needs.

• Translate qualitative customer requirements into measurable product requirements.

• Define functional and non-functional requirements for smart sensor systems.

• Classify these requirements into categories, so that the engineering teams can make trade-offs.

• Source and conduct customer, expert and partner interviews through your own network, and run the market validation independently.

• Share your findings with management, and join selected customer and investor meetings where they add value.

Market Requirements Document

You own the development of a comprehensive MRD, including:

• Market overview, segmentation and competitive landscape

• Target applications and use cases

• Customer personas and stakeholders, where relevant

• Customer pain points and unmet needs

• Market and technology trends and their future projections

• Alternative technology approaches

• Market and product specification requirements for our Analog Edge AI ASIC: power, energy modes, bandwidth, area, process nodes, target ASP and further parameters, prioritized per segment and traceable to specific client discussions and use cases

• Product opportunity areas

• Recommendations for product and technology development

• Regulatory and industry considerations

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with GEMESYS’s technical teams to understand the capabilities and limitations of the underlying analog AI hardware.

• Lead our in-house market analysis team and resources efficiently, so that they support your work and build their own skill set.

• Translate technical capabilities into customer and application value propositions.

• Facilitate discussions between technical, commercial and management stakeholders.

• Challenge our existing assumptions with customer and market evidence.

• Ensure that product requirements are traceable to actual market needs.

• Guide future product roadmap decisions.

Deliverables

You are responsible for producing a professional MRD. Every requirement specified in it is prioritized for each segment and traceable to specific client discussions and use cases.

what you bring

• Experience in technical marketing, product marketing or application engineering for semiconductors, sensors or embedded systems.

• Solid understanding of sensor signal chains, low-power electronics and embedded AI, deep enough to discuss architecture trade-offs with chip designers.

• Extensive experience developing Market Requirements Documents, Product Requirements Documents, market studies or comparable strategic or technical documentation.

• An established network in smart sensors, Edge AI or semiconductors that gives you direct access to potential customers, domain experts and industry partners, without relying on GEMESYS contacts.

• Proven ability to independently source, schedule and conduct customer and expert interviews, and to run market validation end to end.

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear market and customer requirements.

• Experience researching technology markets and competitive landscapes.

• Excellent strategic, analytical and structured thinking skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Ability to independently conduct research, identify information gaps and develop well-supported conclusions.

Domain experience

Must have (at least one of the following)

• Smart sensors

• Edge AI / TinyML

• Embedded AI

Good to have

• Analog computing

• Neuromorphic computing

• Memristive technology

Nice to have

• Automotive sensing

• Autonomous systems

• Wearables or medical devices

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