Sales Engineer/Consultant
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 2025.
Technical sales engineers use their technical knowledge along with sales skills to provide advice and support on a range of products, for which a certain level of expertise is needed.
You work close together with sales and engineering and assist colleagues with bids and tenders for new clients from a technical perspective, working on proof of concept deployments and answering questions.
You like to work independently and self responsible on dedicated projects but like to also to exchange your knowledge with your colleagues.
Tasks
- persuading clients that a product or service best satisfies their needs in terms of quality, price and delivery
- working closely together with sales on customer projects
- calculating client quotations
- providing pre-sales technical assistance and product education
- working on after-sales support services and providing technical backup as required
- arranging and carrying out product training
- support POC and Pilots at the customers together with support and engineering
- supporting sales and marketing activities by attending trade shows, conferences and other marketing events
- making technical presentations and demonstrating how a product meets client needs
- liaising with other members of the sales team and other technical experts
- helping in the design of custom-made products
- providing training and producing support material for other members of the sales team
Requirements
- Solid technical background for infrastructure set-ups in medium and large organizations
- Sales skills
- Sound judgement and good business sense
- Organizational skills
- Teamworking capabilities
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Independence and self-reliance.
- Problem solving
- Product knowledge around open source technology
- General programming skills in PHP, HTML, CSS
Benefits
- A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community
- Promoting and selling a product which pushes the boundaries of technology and with a global user and contributor community
- A competitive salary
- Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
- Time for personal growth and education
We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive who would like to grow and learn. That means that if you don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn, apply!