Customer Success Engineer (Japan)

Rescale
Tokyo, Japan
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for technical professionals with HPC expertise who can deeply engage with enterprise clients in Japan.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with HPC simulation software experience and a background in technical support or professional services
    — “Experience working with at least one HPC simulation software”
  • Individuals with a deep understanding of digital transformation and cloud migration strategies
    — “Collaborate with customers to define and execute their digital transformation strategy”
  • Professionals with a proven ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
    — “Strong presenter able to explain highly technical topics in an easy-to-understand manner”

Things to consider

  • Role involves attending 1-2 regional and national conferences annually
    — “Our CSEs attend 1-2 regional and national conferences throughout the year”
  • Candidates must be comfortable with high-performing, mission-driven teams
    — “Joining Rescale means becoming part of a diverse, collaborative, and mission-driven team”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in long-term strategic planning and roadmap development
    — “create strategic roadmaps spanning 1 - 5 years”
  • Emphasize ability to work with enterprise-level engineers and technical experts
    — “our CSE’s point of contact is a literal rocket scientist, CFD or FEA engineer, or aerospace engineer”
  • Demonstrate deep technical knowledge in at least one HPC discipline
    — “General knowledge in at least one of the high-performance computing (HPC) disciplines”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • increase strategic customers' usage by over 140% annually
Typical background
engineeringcomputer sciencemath

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SuccessTechnical SupportHPC KnowledgeProblem-solvingCommunication

Preferred

SalesProject Management

Stack & domain

Cloud HPCTechnical PresentationsCustomer Business Review MeetingsDigital Transformation StrategyHPC Simulation SoftwareProblem SolvingEmpathetic ApproachOutgoing PersonalityCustomer ObsessionLearning New TechnologiesCollaborationAerospaceEnergyLife SciencesManufacturingHPC

About the role

Original posting from Rescale via Ashby

About Rescale

Rescale is pioneering the future of engineering and scientific discovery. As the leader in digital engineering, we’re transforming how products are developed—through intelligent automation, applied AI, data management, and the integration of the world’s largest network of engineering and R&D applications. Joining Rescale means becoming part of a diverse, collaborative, and mission-driven team that’s unlocking faster innovation across industries like aerospace, energy, life sciences, and manufacturing. We’re solving complex challenges that traditional HPC can’t—and we’re seeking passionate, curious minds to help build the next wave of breakthroughs.

We are seeking a Customer Success Engineer to join our team.

As a CSE, you’ll serve as the trusted technical advisor for Rescale’s key customers. Your role involves working closely with customers and internal teams to ensure users have the best cloud HPC experience. If you’re passionate about building meaningful relationships and going the extra mile for customers, this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and execute all technical activities throughout the customer’s post-sales engagement, such as product and feature adoption, technical presentations, and customer business review meetings. Our top-performing CSEs increase our strategic customers’ usage by over 140% annually.
  • Independently analyze technical needs, requirements, the customer’s current infrastructure, operations, and workflows. Typically, our CSE’s point of contact is a literal rocket scientist, CFD or FEA engineer, or aerospace engineer. You’ll learn their technical workflow and help our customers innovate faster on the Rescale platform.
  • Gain a deep understanding of the customer’s workflows and HPC environments to provide a tailored solution with a unique value proposition. Our customers are at the forefront of the world’s most innovative technologies, from genome sequencing to aeronautical design to crash testing and more.
  • Collaborate with customers to define and execute their digital transformation strategy for migrating workloads from on-premises to the cloud. Our CSEs create strategic roadmaps spanning 1 - 5 years.
  • Articulate and present Rescale solutions at conferences, user groups, webinars, etc. Our CSEs attend 1-2 regional and national conferences throughout the year.

Qualifications:

  • Enjoys solving complex problems and strives to find the best solutions.
  • Empathetic approach to customer solutions.
  • Outgoing personality with a customer-obsessed attitude and willingness to deep dive. Customer obsession is your top priority.
  • Background in a customer-facing role, technical support, or professional service.
  • Comfortable learning and deep diving into new technologies quickly and efficiently.
  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in engineering, computer science, math, physics, or equivalent.
  • General knowledge in at least one of the high-performance computing (HPC) disciplines (such as CFD, FEA, Molecular Dynamics, Weather Forecasting, Computational Chemistry, Reservoir (Seismic) Simulation, Media Rendering, Machine Learning, Financial, etc.)
  • Experience working with enterprise customers in one or more of the industry verticals we serve, including aerospace, automotive, life sciences, oil & gas, semiconductor, EDA, federal sector.
  • Experience working with at least one HPC simulation software (such as packages from ANSYS, Siemens, Dassault Systemes, COMSOL, AVL, Altair, PTC, Cadence, Synopsys, Autodesk, OpenFOAM, LAMMPS, GROMACS, NAMD, etc.)
  • Strong presenter able to explain highly technical topics in an easy-to-understand manner.
  • Ability to manage multiple complex projects and coordinate colleagues across diverse teams and locations.
  • Demonstrated understanding of HPC, scheduler, IaaS, scripting languages, HPC containers, and how these tools are used and deployed by customers.

Your Team:

  • Hitoshi Sato https://www.linkedin.com/in/htsst/, Technical Director - Japan

Rescale is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Rescale will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check.  Here at Rescale, we are committed to being transparent in our policies around candidate privacy. For more details on the information Rescale collects in your application, please view the Rescale Applicant Privacy Policy https://rescale.com/company/legal/applicant-privacy-notice/ here.

Source: Rescale careers (Ashby)

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