Application Engineer
HBK Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer
Overview
In this role you will implement, configure, and integrate Concurrent Real-Time products in real-time environments, collaborating with customers and R&D to optimize performance. You will deliver on-site or remote training, assist with benchmarks and latency reductions, and contribute to product improvements. You’ll work with aerospace, automotive, and industrial clients to ensure successful deployments and long-term stability. This position involves international travel and close cross-functional collaboration to solve challenging real-time problems.
Pay / Benefits
- freedom with responsibility
- healthy work-life balance
- continuous professional development
- international team environment
- innovative and enjoyable working environment
Responsibilities
- Provide technical implementation, configuration, and integration support for Concurrent Real-Time products (RedHawk Linux, iHawk, and simulation toolchains)
- Assist customers with system setup, benchmarking, latency optimization, and troubleshooting in real-time environments
- Deliver on-site or remote customer training, demonstrations, and technical workshops
- Collaborate with R&D to replicate issues, validate fixes, and contribute to product improvements
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, solution guides, and best practices
- Support pre-sales activities through technical presentations, PoC deployments, and requirements analysis
- Partner with customers in aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial sectors to ensure successful deployment and long-term performance
- Participate in system testing, performance evaluation, and custom configuration development as needed
- Provide feedback to product management on feature requests and market needs
- Travel internationally (approx. 15–25%) for customer engagements, training, and on-site support
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, kernel tuning, or RTOS concepts
- Experience with C/C++ development and scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Familiarity with real-time scheduling, latency analysis, multithreading, or performance optimization
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work with customers
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
- Fluency in English (additional European languages a plus)
- customer-facing communication
- presentation skills
- problem-solving
- Real-time systems expertise
- Linux internals and kernel tuning
- RTOS concepts
Reference: WJ-799_25018411