Top Senior Sales Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Drives technical engagement and enablement across partner channels for a cybersecurity and enterprise networking platform. Supports Channel Account Managers, trains partner sales engineers, delivers demos and technical sessions, leads roadshows, develops partner relationships, researches competitors, supports joint solutions, tracks deal metrics, and contributes technical credibility throughout partner sales cycles. The role requires collaboration with sales, marketing, product, vendors, and partners, with travel up to 50%.

Drive technical validation and demos for enterprise logistics customers by building quick integrations/prototypes, mapping data flows across TMS/WMS/CRM, partnering with Sales on proofs of concept, and feeding product insights back to engineering. Enable GTM with demo templates and briefings while shaping the Sales Engineering playbook for AI-driven automation and agent workflows.

Serve as the primary technical advisor in enterprise sales cycles, leading discovery, architecture discussions, product demonstrations, competitive research, and Proof of Value programs. Translate security technology into measurable business outcomes, address email and identity security challenges, educate sales teams and partners, and guide enterprise stakeholders toward successful outcomes. The role requires expertise in SaaS security, networking, email infrastructure, identity services, modern threats, and customer-facing technical communication.

Serve as the primary technical resource for the Eastern U.S. sales team, driving technical evaluation, delivering presentations and demos, responding to RFIs/RFPs, producing quotes, providing post-sales support, mentoring team members, and engaging at industry events to align Nokia optical and transmission solutions with customer needs.

Partners with enterprise sales teams across strategic accounts, serving as the technical lead throughout complex cybersecurity sales cycles. Designs architectures, leads technical evaluations and proof-of-value engagements, delivers tailored demonstrations, advises CISOs and security leaders, and positions the platform against legacy SIEM and security analytics solutions. The role also supports executive briefings, documents opportunities in Salesforce, provides customer-driven product feedback, and tracks emerging security analytics, cloud, and AI-driven SOC trends.

The Sales Engineer supports pre-sales activities by leading product demonstrations, providing technical expertise during sales calls and presentations, explaining product value and differentiators, and developing sales and training collateral. The role partners with Product, Sales, and Marketing teams, maintains competitive and market knowledge, supports events and webinars, ensures accurate pricing, and documents customer and partner insights in the CRM.

Own the technical pre-sales motion for Docker across US public-sector accounts. Lead discovery, competitive PoCs, architecture reviews, demos, and executive briefings for federal agencies and integrators. Advise on AI governance, secure software supply chains, containers, accreditation, FedRAMP, STIGs, FIPS, ATOs, and disconnected environments. Partner with account executives, product, post-sales, and channel partners to shape requirements, support proposals, build technical champions, and drive federal expansions and renewals.

Serve as a technical advisor to prospective customers, supporting Account Executives with fraud and compliance discovery, customized product demonstrations, RFPs, security reviews, and solution designs. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve Sardine’s platform and sales processes. Communicate complex technical and business concepts to global clients and contribute to revenue growth in a remote-first environment.

Lead technical pre-sales engagements to secure the technical win: run hands-on pilots and POCs, benchmark and tune JVM performance, analyze GC/JIT logs, present results to technical and executive stakeholders, coordinate cross-functional teams, support territory strategy, mentor SEs, and evangelize the product to grow and retain enterprise customers.

Serves as the primary pre-sales technical contact, partnering with sales teams to conduct discovery, deliver demonstrations, address technical questions, complete security questionnaires, and build customized solutions. Leads proof-of-concept scoping, translates customer requirements, supports enterprise procurement software sales, and ensures effective handoff to post-sales consultants. The role also provides product feedback and helps improve pre-sales processes and messaging.

Supports sales teams by designing technical solutions, delivering complex product demonstrations, preparing proposals, and addressing customer requirements. Serves as a subject matter expert across networking, security, Microsoft, voice, cloud, UCaaS, and CCaaS technologies. Partners with Product, Engineering, and Sales teams, provides technical training, manages multiple enterprise opportunities, documents sales activity, and represents the company at sales events.

Own the technical evaluation and solution design process for real estate development and construction finance prospects. Conduct discovery, redesign workflows, deliver tailored product demonstrations, build ROI models, and advise executive stakeholders. Support implementations, integrations, reporting, and post-sale issue resolution while partnering with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Client Success. Contribute to enablement, thought leadership, conferences, and proptech industry expertise.

Support the sales process by demonstrating Cribl, performing technical discovery, running workshops/POVs, answering technical questions, documenting use cases, and scaling repeatable solution consultations across multiple concurrent opportunities in a remote, high-velocity environment.

Lead pre-sales technical efforts for enterprise accounts in Michigan: drive demos, POCs, pipeline generation, and architect Rubrik solutions. Act as trusted advisor, qualify opportunities, collaborate with account teams and partners, and present to technical and executive stakeholders to meet sales objectives.

Lead the technical pre-sales process for security solutions, conduct product demonstrations, and collaborate with sales to secure contracts with major enterprises.

Leads technical pre-sales activities for enterprise storage solutions, partnering with sales teams, account managers, specialists, and channel partners. Develops architectures, configures systems, manages evaluations and benchmarks, delivers technical presentations, responds to RFPs and RFIs, and translates customer requirements into measurable business outcomes. Provides expertise in storage, networking, cloud-native architectures, Linux, file systems, virtualization, containers, and competitive solutions while supporting new business development and technical wins.

Own the technical pre-sales process for enterprise customer data platform opportunities. Lead discovery, architecture discussions, demonstrations, proofs of concept, security reviews, RFPs, and technical due diligence. Partner with Account Executives to win complex deals, advise customers on data strategy, and hand off implementations to Customer Success. Provide field insights for product direction and create scalable technical content.

Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical support for Fixed Networks (PON) and IP solutions, engage customers, design and demo solutions, configure and quote systems, collaborate with sales and partners, and support trials and network operations.

Provide presales technical support for AMER sales: deliver product demos, customized presentations, proofs of concept, and savings analyses for IBM mainframe customers using Syncsort/DTS, MFX, ZPSaver and related solutions. Coordinate with product teams and channel partners, stay current on competitors, and support partner business planning and QBRs. Travel (~20%) required.

Provide pre- and post-sales technical leadership for financial services and trading customers. Gather requirements, identify opportunities, advise customers and partners, deliver technical presentations and training, support proofs of concept and onsite testing, conduct technical business reviews, research solutions, and create technical marketing materials. The role requires deep networking architecture expertise, strong communication and selling skills, and approximately 10% travel.

The Regional Sales Engineer engages customers to drive product adoption, presents technical aspects of products, and builds relationships while meeting sales goals. Travel up to 50% is expected.

Lead technical authority in pre-sales for enterprise merchants, PSPs, and marketplaces. Own RFP technical responses, design integration architectures, guide migrations to unified APIs, support go-lives, and act as developer advocate while feeding product feedback.

Serve as the primary technical advisor across the customer lifecycle: design scalable solutions, lead discovery and architecture reviews, support implementation and adoption, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive optimization and integration of products and services.

Lead technical pre-sales for enterprise accounts: present demos, run POCs, design and deploy network architectures, respond to RFPs, and drive product feedback to shape roadmap.

Serve as a strategic technical advisor in the sales process: lead customized demos, translate operational challenges into solutions, complete RFPs/RFIs/security questionnaires, build demo environments, and partner with Sales and Product to scale Solutions Engineering and improve win rates.