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

The opportunity

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 / Tiny ML
• Embedded AI
• Good to have
• Analog computing
• Neuromorphic computing
• Memristive technology
• Nice to have
• Automotive sensing
• Autonomous systems
• Wearables or medical devices

About us

About GEMESYS

We are a deep-tech startup that is set up to build a legacy.

Our mission is to design a chip that works like the human brain to overcome computing bottlenecks and provide AI with the hardware to fulfill its destiny: Shaping a better future for everyone.

Based out of Bochum, Germany, we are setting out to challenge the status quo.

We have received €8.6M+ in funding and are fully backed by a strong team of investors and the German government.

We are a group of pioneering minds who love blank canvases.

We work within an agile startup environment where you can be hands-on and contribute to the success of next-generation AI hardware.

We execute and work at a high pace. We fail fast and learn faster. Sounds like you? Come join us.