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Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

Customer Support Ingenieur

Equipment Field ServiceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeJena, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A successfully completed university degree in physics or engineering in electrical engineering, optics, laser technology, or precision mechanics, or a technician qualification with several years of relevant professional experience.
  • Willingness to travel worldwide (50%).
  • Preferably, field service experience in optical or electron-optical fields.
  • Strong communication, teamwork, assertiveness, and sense of responsibility.
  • Confidence when interacting with customers.
  • Goal-oriented, structured, and independent working style.
  • Fluent spoken and written English.
  • Openness toward other cultures.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in customer system installations and upgrades in cooperation with local service employees.
  • Guide local service employees on site and remotely in troubleshooting and installing customer systems.
  • Prepare systems for customer acceptance.
  • Participate in troubleshooting customer systems.
  • Repair and service faulty customer systems.
  • Assist with creating and maintaining service documentation.
  • Assist with developing spare-parts concepts, including defining spare parts and initial spare-parts requirements.
  • Conduct initial and continuing technical training for service technicians; courses are conducted in English.
  • Communicate identified equipment weaknesses to development and manufacturing.
  • Assist in communicating service requirements to research and development for new and further development.
  • Support service technicians worldwide through second-level technical support and hotline support.
  • Participate in preparing repair quotations.

Desired Qualifications

  • Field service experience in optical or electron-optical fields.

About the Company

Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

ZEISS Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the ZEISS Group, investing in deep-tech startups that align with its core business areas. It focuses on early-stage rounds (pre-Series A to Series A), typically $1–$5 million, across Information Technology, Industrial Tech, MedTech, and Life Sciences. It adds value by providing targeted funding and using ZEISS’s global network and expertise to support portfolio companies. The goal is to accelerate development of new technologies and business models that complement ZEISS’s portfolio, while actively engaging with external innovation.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$69.9M
Headquarters
Oberkochen, Germany
Founded
2001

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