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Sales Engineer Duties, Skills & Responsibilities: a Guide for Employers

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When hiring Sales Engineers, it’s important to properly describe the job opening with the duties, skills and responsibilities of the role. We’ve compiled a guide to Sales Engineer Duties, Skills & Responsibilities using data from actual job postings on Indeed.

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Popular Sales Engineer Duties and Skills

Here are some commonly found skills and other specifications in job postings for Sales Engineers.

Sales

  • Definition : Skill or experience with sales.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 33.3% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Project management

  • Definition : Skills or experience related to project management. Project management includes planning, executing, and monitoring projects in order to meet requirements while controlling budget, scope, and timeline.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 5-6
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 20.5% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Pre-sales

  • Definition : Skill or experience in pre-sales.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 15.1% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Product demos

  • Definition : Experience marketing products to consumers with demonstrations and trials.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 5-6
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 12.9% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

AWS

  • Definition : Experience with Amazon Web Services, a platform which provides a wide array of information technology services to individuals or organizations. Services include but are not limited to cloud computing, data storage, database services, business applications, and content delivery.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 12.2% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Azure

  • Definition : A cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 11.9% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Linux

  • Definition : Family of UNIX-like, open-source operating systems, based on the Linux kernel.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 9.1% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Python

  • Definition : An interpreted, open-source programming language.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 8.3% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Analysis skills

  • Definition : Skill at using mental reasoning or research to gain insight into or solve problems.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 7.8% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Computer networking

  • Definition : Skill or experience working with computer networks.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 7% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Technical sales

  • Definition : Experience selling scientific or technical products such as equipment, devices, hardware in various industries.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 5-6
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 5.3% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

VMWare

  • Definition : A virtualization software suite owned by Dell Technologies.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 5-6
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 3% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.

Bash

  • Definition : A command line interpreter and commonly used Unix shell.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 3-4
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.6% of Sales Engineer job postings on Indeed.
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