Graduate Sales Engineer
City of Shakopee, MN, New Bremen, OH, United States
The Graduate Sales Engineering role is designed for early engineers who want to develop careers technical sales, applications engineering, and technical marketing. You will benefit from extensive training programs, including training on NI products and related technologies, our sales process, public speaking, instructor skills, and on our customers and markets they serve.
We're looking for engineers who thrive in teams and enjoy time spent with customers discussing complex engineering problems. Applicants will demonstrate resilience and a passion to excel. The successful applicant will demonstrate confidence in sharing new ideas and strive to keep updated with market developments, competitors, customer demand, and new product lines to develop their technical acumen, customer understanding, and soft skills.
In this role, your responsibilities will be
Spend your first 6 months in rapid learning, gaining expertise with NI tools and our sales process while supporting NI customers and their technical challenges
After 6 months, you will partner with an Account Manager to support customer sales requests, provide demos, training, and customer configuration
Balance your time between inbound sales demand, marketing generated leads, customer presentations and demos, and your prospecting activities to generate new demand and pipeline
Develop test and measurement expertise to equip you for your future career
Qualify demand and elevate opportunities to Account Managers to drive growth
Provide coaching and mentorship to others within the team
Work cooperatively with many departments at NI, including sales, marketing, technical support, operations, and business units
Travel to customer sites to conduct training courses, lunch and learns, and product presentations
Collaborate with our partner and distribution channel
Create a business plan to drive business success in your territory, identifying the right actions and resources to support business outcomes
Who you are You place a high value on proactive customer facing activity. You demonstrate strong initiative and problem-solving skills. You love learning about new technology. You are passionate about establishing and building relationships through exceptional communication and customer advocacy.
You are energetic, enthusiastic, and maintain a positive outlook.
Requirements
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering
Strong desire to pursue a long-term career in technical sales, marketing, or applications engineering
Solid understanding of electronics, computers, and high-level programming languages (C, Python, LabVIEW, etc)
Ability to relocate to a Paris (FR), Milan (IT), Munich (DE) or Reading (UK) for minimum of 2 years
Willingness to relocate elsewhere in Europe if interested in Sales or Applications Engineering path
Available for moderate travel
English language competency and effective communication skills
Preferred qualifications You gain the respect of others, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are seen as a leader.
You listen attentively and are able to grasp fast‑paced technical conversations.
You have a strong customer service attitude, work ethic and drive to succeed.
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We're looking for engineers who thrive in teams and enjoy time spent with customers discussing complex engineering problems. Applicants will demonstrate resilience and a passion to excel. The successful applicant will demonstrate confidence in sharing new ideas and strive to keep updated with market developments, competitors, customer demand, and new product lines to develop their technical acumen, customer understanding, and soft skills.
In this role, your responsibilities will be
Spend your first 6 months in rapid learning, gaining expertise with NI tools and our sales process while supporting NI customers and their technical challenges
After 6 months, you will partner with an Account Manager to support customer sales requests, provide demos, training, and customer configuration
Balance your time between inbound sales demand, marketing generated leads, customer presentations and demos, and your prospecting activities to generate new demand and pipeline
Develop test and measurement expertise to equip you for your future career
Qualify demand and elevate opportunities to Account Managers to drive growth
Provide coaching and mentorship to others within the team
Work cooperatively with many departments at NI, including sales, marketing, technical support, operations, and business units
Travel to customer sites to conduct training courses, lunch and learns, and product presentations
Collaborate with our partner and distribution channel
Create a business plan to drive business success in your territory, identifying the right actions and resources to support business outcomes
Who you are You place a high value on proactive customer facing activity. You demonstrate strong initiative and problem-solving skills. You love learning about new technology. You are passionate about establishing and building relationships through exceptional communication and customer advocacy.
You are energetic, enthusiastic, and maintain a positive outlook.
Requirements
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering
Strong desire to pursue a long-term career in technical sales, marketing, or applications engineering
Solid understanding of electronics, computers, and high-level programming languages (C, Python, LabVIEW, etc)
Ability to relocate to a Paris (FR), Milan (IT), Munich (DE) or Reading (UK) for minimum of 2 years
Willingness to relocate elsewhere in Europe if interested in Sales or Applications Engineering path
Available for moderate travel
English language competency and effective communication skills
Preferred qualifications You gain the respect of others, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are seen as a leader.
You listen attentively and are able to grasp fast‑paced technical conversations.
You have a strong customer service attitude, work ethic and drive to succeed.
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