Senior Sales Engineer

Flow Engineering

$120K — $150K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in sales engineering or a related technical customer-facing role.
  • Ability to engage with various stakeholders from individual engineers to executive VPs.
  • Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, and engineering stacks.
  • Skilled at translating customer needs into product capabilities.
  • Experience in dynamic environments where sales processes and products evolve.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with account executives in technical discovery and demo processes.
  • Analyze and understand customer engineering workflows and requirements.
  • Create customized demos and proofs of concept based on actual use cases.
  • Address technical and security inquiries from engineering and IT teams.
  • Provide feedback to product and engineering teams based on customer needs.
  • Assist with seamless transition of pilots into deployment with engineers.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with both sales and engineering teams.
  • Engagement in high-stakes interactions with engineering leaders in major industries.
  • Chance to shape the technical presentation of a rapidly evolving product.
  • Participation in impactful pilots that prove the product's value to customers.
Full Job Description
About the role

Flow is seeking a senior sales engineer to be the technical partner in our sales process. Our buyers are systems and engineering leaders at aerospace, defense, automotive, and hardware companies, and they need to see how Flow fits their real workflows before they commit. You will run technical discovery, demos, and pilots, and you will be the person who can answer the hard questions in the room.

This role pairs closely with our account executives. They own the commercial relationship, and you own the technical win: showing the product, mapping it to the customer's engineering process, and making sure a pilot proves out what it needs to.

What you'll do
  • Partner with account executives on discovery calls, technical demos, and pilots, from first technical conversation through to a signed deal.
  • Understand each customer's engineering workflow and requirements process, then show how Flow fits it.
  • Build and run demos and proofs of concept that reflect the customer's actual use case rather than a generic script.
  • Answer technical and security questions from engineering, IT, and security teams, and complete security questionnaires with support from the team.
  • Work with product and engineering to feed back what customers need and where the product should go next.
  • Partner with forward deployed engineers to hand off pilots cleanly into deployment.

About you
  • 4+ years in sales engineering, solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, or a technical customer-facing role.
  • Comfortable running a technical room, from individual engineers up to VPs, and adjusting the conversation to each.
  • Strong technical foundation: you can reason about APIs, integrations, and how software fits into an existing engineering stack.
  • Able to translate between what a customer says they need and what the product actually does.
  • Comfortable in a fast-moving environment where the sales motion and the product are both still taking shape.

Nice to have
  • Familiarity with requirements, systems engineering, PLM, or ALM tooling (Jama, DOORS, etc.)
  • Background in or selling into defense, aerospace, or regulated hardware environments.

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