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

the opportunity

We are looking for a Technical Marketing & MRD Specialist on Smart Sensors & Edge AI to investigate, structure and document the market requirements for next-generation smart sensor applications powered by our Analog Edge AI low-power ASIC. You bring a solid engineering background that enables you to understand our technology at a deep technical level and translate what you learn into precise, measurable requirements. You combine strong analytical and writing skills with a genuine understanding of technology markets.
In this role, you translate market needs, customer problems and application requirements into a structured MRD that guides GEMESYS’s strategy, product, technology and business development activities. You work closely with our management, engineers and business developers to answer critical questions such as:

• Which smart sensor markets have the strongest need for local or edge AI, meaning on-device learning, inference, event or anomaly detection, or data compression?
• What problems are customers currently unable to solve efficiently?
• What sensor capabilities, AI functions and performance levels are required?
• Which applications benefit most from on-device learning and inference?
• What are the requirements around power consumption, latency and bandwidth?
• Which technical requirements are driven by customers, and which by competitors or industry standards?
• Which product requirements should GEMESYS prioritize for its Edge AI technology?

The goal is an MRD that engineering can design against: every requirement quantified, prioritized per segment and traceable to specific client discussions and use cases.

your role

Market & Application Research

• Build a deep understanding of our analog AI hardware, its capabilities and limitations, together with our team.
• 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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