Solutions Architect

Lumafield
Cambridge, MA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in technical sales or product development with a focus on manufacturing inspection tools.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in engineering and experience in customer-facing technical roles such as sales engineer or applications engineer
    — “Engineering background with hands-on exposure to quality, inspection, or product development.”
  • Individuals who can bridge technical capabilities with business outcomes and deliver ROI-focused narratives
    — “Commercially minded; you can turn technical results into a defensible ROI story.”
  • Professionals comfortable with multi-stakeholder B2B sales and have a history of closing technical wins
    — “Comfortable owning the technical win in complex, multi-stakeholder B2B sales cycles.”

Things to consider

  • Travel is a significant commitment, requiring 30% of time spent on customer sites
    — “Willing to travel to customer sites 30% of the time”
  • The role involves parallel project management and detailed execution across multiple evaluations
    — “Organized enough to run multiple evaluations in parallel without dropping details.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical executives
    — “Can explain complex technology simply and credibly to both engineers and executives.”
  • Showcase experience with industrial CT, metrology, or NDT as a differentiator
    — “Experience with industrial CT, metrology, or NDT (X-ray, ultrasonic, CMM).”
  • Demonstrate skills in creating reusable technical collateral to support sales efforts
    — “Create reusable technical collateral, such as application notes, case studies, and demo datasets, that helps the sales team scale.”
  • Emphasize your ability to scope and hand off technical requirements effectively
    — “Scope solution requirements (measurements, integrations, facility, IT/security) and hand off cleanly to Customer Success.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful technical evaluations
  • clear ROI models
  • customer satisfaction
Typical background
3-5 years in a customer-facing technical role

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical DiscoverySolution DesignROI ModelingTechnical PresentationsCustomer Interaction

Preferred

Industrial CTMetrologyNDTDomain Knowledge In Automotive, Aerospace, Electronics

Stack & domain

Industrial CT ScanningMetrologyNDTQuality InspectionProduct DevelopmentCommunicationProblem SolvingTechnical PresentationROI ModelingCollaborationManufacturingQuality Assurance

About the role

Original posting from Lumafield via Lever

About Lumafield: 

Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.

We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.

Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively.

We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We’re building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and powerful insights. And then we'll upgrade it all again.

Lumafield is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. and has an office in Cambridge, MA. 

What you'll do::

  • Serve as the technical lead alongside Account Executives across the sales cycle
  • Run technical discovery with prospects to understand their parts, inspection workflows, quality challenges, and success criteria.
  • Design scan evaluations and proof-of-concepts on customer parts, and turn results into clear, decision-ready findings.
  • Assist in the creation of the business case, including ROI models and executive-ready reports that tie Lumafield’s capabilities to measurable customer outcomes.
  • Recommend the right solution across Neptune, Triton, and Voyager based on part geometry, materials, throughput needs, and deployment environment.
  • Deliver demos and technical presentations to audiences ranging from quality engineers to plant managers and executives.
  • Scope solution requirements (measurements, integrations, facility, IT/security) and hand off cleanly to Customer Success.
  • Feed structured field insights back to Product and Engineering on capability gaps, competitive losses, and emerging use cases.
  • Create reusable technical collateral, such as application notes, case studies, and demo datasets, that helps the sales team scale.

About you::

  • Engineering background with hands-on exposure to quality, inspection, or product development.
  • 3-5 years in a customer-facing technical role, such as solutions architect, sales engineer, or applications engineer.
  • Can explain complex technology simply and credibly to both engineers and executives.
  • Comfortable owning the technical win in complex, multi-stakeholder B2B sales cycles.
  • Commercially minded; you can turn technical results into a defensible ROI story.
  • Organized enough to run multiple evaluations in parallel without dropping details.
  • Decisive with incomplete information, and known for following through.
  • Willing to travel to customer sites 30% of the time 

Bonus::

  • Experience with industrial CT, metrology, or NDT (X-ray, ultrasonic, CMM).
  • Domain knowledge in automotive, aerospace, electronics, batteries, medical devices, or consumer products.
  • Experience selling capital equipment combined with software or SaaS.
  • Background in GD&T, failure analysis, or production quality systems (SPC, PPAP, FAI).
  • Scripting or data skills (Python, SQL) for building custom analyses or tooling.
  • Experience supporting production-line or international deployments.

Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation, as well as a health & wellness stipend, 401k, parental leave, flexible PTO, commuter benefits, company wide events and more! 

Lumafield is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, because the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Do you feel like your skills don’t meet every single requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway – If you’re excited about our technology, the opportunity, and are eager to learn more we’d love to hear from you!  

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information or veteran status. 

Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.

Source: Lumafield careers (Lever)

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