Sales Engineer
First seen by Alion on Jul 14, 2026. Trellix scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Title:
Sales EngineerAbout Trellix
Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity. The company’s comprehensive, open, and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at https://trellix.com.
Role Overview:
Trellix is hiring a Security Pre-Sales Engineer (SE) in the Houston area. This is a remote role. In this role, you will partner with your sales account manager(s) to create a solution architecture and proposals that meets the customer's requirements.As a Sales Engineer, you will be required to lead and engage throughout the sales lifecycle from discovering the customer's needs, writing proposals, solution demonstration, architecting solutions, building the customers trust and leading the proof of concept to gain the technical win. Your sales focus will be aligned with our Majors/Enterprise accounts. You will also work in collaboration with your direct SE Manager and Regional sales directors to contribute to sales strategy and team programs that create a pipeline, customer excellence and best practices on technical win.
About the role:
You will oversee the solution sales activities within the sales process to gain the technical win and the customers' trust
You will participate in solution led sales calls and prospect visits, qualifying the customer's requirements
You will gather requirements, develop use cases, and fully understand our customer's needs and constraints
You will present the Trellix Strategy and how this solves the customers' need and outcomes
Provide technical expertise on customer product and solution demonstrations
You will manage the technical or solution response to RFIs/RFPs and orchestration of the virtual teams to help provide a comprehensive consultative response
Present a solution proposal to the customer, demonstrate how we solve the customer's requirements and how this aligns with the customers' outcomes and differentiate from the competition
You will remain current on security trends and industry analysts reports and use this knowledge to guide technical sales wins
About you:
You will have 5+ years experience in Presales or System Engineering role.
You will have experience within Cloud and Virtualization technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP and VMWare
You will have presentation experience at the C-Level.
You will have experience in Security Operations Center
You will have have network administration & management experience
You will have Network performance monitoring & analysis experience.
You will have Enterprise Anti-Virus solutions or Network Security & Encryption solutions experience
This position is paid (in part) on a commission basis. The Base Pay Range is $130,000 - $170,000. The On Target Earnings (OTE) Range (base pay plus on target commission) is $200,000 - $240,000. Actual base pay within the Base Pay Range and actual OTE within the OTE Range will depend on varying circumstances, including the work location, individual qualifications, company budget and other operational business needs. Compensation may also include long-term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy.
Company Benefits and Perks:
We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.
Retirement Plans
Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Support for Community Involvement
We're serious about ourcommitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.
Our Commitment to You:
At Trellix, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates. Please be aware that fraudulent recruiting activity can occur through fake job postings or impersonated communications.
Trellix conducts interviews through professional channels only and does not use text messages, instant messaging, or group chats for interviews. We will never request sensitive personal information-such as your date of birth, Social Security number, or national ID number-during the interview process.
Trellix also does not require candidates to pay fees, purchase products or services, or process payments of any kind as part of the recruiting or hiring process. And Trellix will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.