Sales Engineering Support Specialist”

A Moving Experience

We're Hiring: Inside Sales & Sales Engineering Support – GenAI & Automotive Solutions

Are you ready to launch your career in the fast-moving world of Generative AI and automotive technology? Join Cerence and support our global Sales Engineering and Solution Architecture teams as they deliver next-generation AI-powered in-car experiences.

This entry-level role is designed as a growth path: you will take ownership of recurring and process-oriented tasks while learning directly from our Sales Engineers, Account team, Solution Architects, Professional services etc. Over time, you will develop the technical and business skills needed to grow into a Solution Architect or Sales Engineering role.

What You'll Do

• Coordinate and track complex customer requests across multiple teams.
• Prepare and manage documentation (SOWs, CRs, approvals) and keep records updated in internal systems (e.g. POS, Confluence).
• Build and maintain reusable proposals, quotes, and templates for standard use cases.
• Gather and structure technical data (e.g. CPU/memory benchmarks, language and feature availability).
• Drive follow-ups on approvals, status updates, and review cycles across teams and stakeholders.
• Contribute to customer-facing material by ensuring consistency, accuracy, and clarity.
• Provide operational support that keeps the Sales Engineering function efficient and scalable.

What You Bring

• A degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, a comparable qualification or a completed vocational training (Ausbildung) in a related field.
• Initial experience in sales support, project coordination, or technical administration is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills in English and German; French a plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office; experience with CRM or documentation tools is a plus.
• Curiosity for technology, especially Generative AI, with the motivation to develop into a technical role.

Why Cerence? At Cerence, we're not just building technology, we're transforming the way people interact with their vehicles. This role gives you direct exposure to GenAI projects with global automotive leaders, offering the opportunity to grow quickly into a technical sales engineering career path.

Ready to accelerate your career in GenAI mobility? Apply now and start your journey with Cerence.

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world's leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence's passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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