Vacant job

We have a fantastic opportunity within IRnova for a Sales Engineer to join our highly motivated team. The position is based in Kista, Stockholm.

You will be responsible for selling a range of innovative cooled infrared detectors disrupting the current markets.

Reporting to the Sales Vice President, your job as a Sales and Account Manager will be about selling our products to European customers and ensuring customer success. You will be actively involved in company activities, such as sales meetings, regular forecasting, and responsible for individual and team annual targets.

You work closely with company management, the product manager, and our support team to ensure that effective proposals are presented to customers.

You need to have a key understanding of our market and our business goals to position IRnova as the preferred supplier. Furthermore, you will take part in market surveys and analysis by keeping yourself up-to-date with all relevant projects and programs involving infrared technologies.

Who Are You?

You have an engineering background or a proven track record of understanding deep technical matters, ideally in the imaging sensors industry. A Master’s Degree or MBA is desired.

As our future Sales Engineer, we believe you check the following boxes:

• Passionate about new business

• Enthusiastic personality, which you transfer onto your colleagues

• A true negotiator. You keep your and your client’s needs in mind

• Individual Contributor with team spirit

• Ability to travel, sometimes for longer periods

• Talented in giving presentations on company products and services

What you get at IRnova

The position will offer you a dynamic and challenging, yet friendly and fun, environment that will present numerous opportunities to discover your potential through training and development. At IRnova, you will work in the Electrum Laboratory in Kista, a state-of-the-art facility that contributes to making the time from groundbreaking scientific results to fully featured commercial products surprisingly short. The recent success of its latest released products means it’s time to get new hands on-board for the coming expansion.

As an employee at IRnova, you will have access to their benefits package, which includes among other things, 30 vacation days, pension plan ITP, and health care benefits. There is also an incentive employee stock options plan, where all employees get the opportunity to invest in the company and benefit from the growth ahead.

Your Future Employer

IRnova is part of a handful of companies in the world capable of producing cooled infrared detectors. These devices, relying on the fascinating principles of quantum physics, serve both the defence and industrial markets, with applications ranging from tank sights and anti-air systems to search and rescue and optical gas imaging. An increasingly important market is space, where IRnova’s world-leading T2SL technology can be used in the extended shortwave region for Earth observation from satellites.

Your Application

Your application is very welcome! In this recruitment, IRnova collaborates with Thalamus. Please contact Camilla Molander at 070-307 12 50 or Eva Baumgartner at 070-593 65 20 with your questions.

We will read applications continuously and the position may be filled before the last day of application, so please send us your application today. Last day to apply is 2026-05-30.

Please submit your application in English.