Top Entry Level Sales Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Serve as a technical advisor and strategic presenter for enterprise sales opportunities. Partner with Account Executives to deliver customized demos, build branded demo environments and buyer microsites, explain AI integrations and agent workflows, qualify technical requirements, and help secure vendor-of-choice status. The role requires frequent customer and event travel, exceptional storytelling, strong presentation skills, SaaS presales experience, design sensitivity, and practical AI knowledge.

Supports laboratory instrument sales across the Central Region by demonstrating products, prospecting, following up on leads, preparing quotations, managing customer relationships, and coordinating key accounts. Uses Salesforce for opportunity management and reporting, develops territory sales plans, presents to professional organizations, and learns scientific principles related to metallurgical, spectroscopy, thermal, and elemental analysis equipment.

Sell separation science laboratory instruments, accessories, and consumables across the Western United States. Responsibilities include territory travel, customer presentations, sample demonstrations, trade shows, quotations, CRM updates, sales activity reporting, and collaboration with service, applications, technical communications, and R&D teams. The role requires technical product knowledge, customer relationship skills, domestic travel, and residence within the assigned territory.

Partner with Account Executives and enterprise customers to deliver AI governance product demonstrations, conduct technical discovery, scope and guide pilots, and demonstrate business value. Lead stakeholder workshops, collaborate with deployment, product, and engineering teams, capture competitive and customer feedback, and improve demo assets and pilot playbooks. The role requires clear communication with business, risk, compliance, and engineering audiences and may involve travel for key customer meetings.

The Associate Sales Engineer partners with sales, product, customer success, and professional services teams to support SaaS sales. Responsibilities include conducting consultative discovery, delivering tailored technical demonstrations, explaining API integrations and security protocols, identifying technical blockers, recommending solutions, incorporating customer feedback, and communicating technical value to HR and IT stakeholders. The role also requires collaboration, continuous learning, competitive awareness, and use of data and AI tools to improve buyer engagement.

Drive customer sales in the Chicago region by building relationships, delivering tooling solutions, identifying business opportunities, consulting on CNC machining applications, and managing the sales pipeline. The role combines technical expertise in machining and cutting tools with customer engagement, negotiation, forecasting, and collaboration across internal teams. Candidates must live near Chicago, hold a manufacturing engineering degree or equivalent experience, have technical sales experience, and travel approximately 10% overnight.

Develops new business for wire drawing materials and lubricants, provides technical customer support, supports sales through customer visits and consulting, researches markets and competitors, and maintains CRM records. The role covers Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, and Florida, with 50–60% travel within the assigned district and elsewhere in the United States as needed.

Provide technical pre-sales expertise for Jumio’s identity verification, KYC, AML, authentication, and risk management solutions. Responsibilities include consulting with prospects, leading technical presentations, responding to RFPs and RFIs, managing proofs of concept, onboarding customers through go-live, delivering customized web and mobile demos, and supporting sales, account management, product, engineering, and marketing teams.

Leads technical pre-sales engagements for Hologram’s IoT connectivity platform, partnering with Account Executives to win complex deals. Responsibilities include solution architecture, product demonstrations, API integration guidance, hardware and embedded-system recommendations, cellular certification support, technical troubleshooting during pilots, and communicating technical value to enterprise stakeholders. The role requires expertise in cellular technologies, networking, IoT deployments, scripting, SQL troubleshooting, and developer-facing technical sales.

The Ubuntu Pro Sales Engineer drives adoption of Ubuntu Pro, advises customers, delivers presentations, and collaborates with sales teams to meet targets in a global setting.

Partner with Account Executives to handle the technical side of sales: deliver personalized demos, answer technical questions, manage PoCs, build relationships with product and engineering teams, and optionally create documentation or integration prototypes.

Serve as the primary technical advisor in mid-market and enterprise sales cycles. Lead discovery, architecture discussions, product demonstrations, competitive research, and Proof of Value programs. Translate security technology into measurable business outcomes, address technical objections, educate stakeholders and partners, and support AI security solutions across email and identity. The role requires expertise in SaaS security, email infrastructure, networking, identity, threat detection, and customer-facing technical communication.