Associate Sales Engineer - (preferably) Paris

Associate Sales Engineer - (preferably) Paris

Associate Sales Engineer - preferably Paris

Early Career Development Program

Do you want to be in a customer-facing role that uses both your technical and interpersonal abilities? Do you want to be an Engineer but also get to use your people skills to sell innovative new solutions? 

This is an exciting time for you to kickstart your career in the IT industry. Digital transformation is everywhere, with technologies such as AI/ML, Automation, IoT, multi-cloud and 5G driving the next waves of innovation. Juniper Networks is at the heart of this transformation with our industry-leading technologies that are helping to resolve the most sophisticated issues in connectivity. 

Sales Engineers are the technical specialists who articulate and accelerate time-to-value for customers by leveraging solutions for Cloud, AI-Ops, operational simplicity, and service-assurance enabled architectures. You will become the technical lead who works with our customers to understand their business issues, networking and security constraints, and then apply Juniper technology to solve those problems. You will be able to apply your passion for technology to excite our customers, and provide them with the best possible experience and outcomes. 

If you enjoy real-world application of knowledge to seek solutions to problems, Sales Engineering is an extraordinary place to be! Are you willing to unleash your potential? 

The Associate SE Program is a career development program designed to rapidly onboard new engineers. The program starts in September 2023 with an intensive, hands-on training and development phase where you will begin to learn fundamental Juniper technology and professional skills. 

You will then move into the apprenticeship phase of the program where you will focus on real-world projects to deepen your Juniper technology knowledge, hands-on skills, and customer interaction experience. 

Responsibilities will vary depending on each assignment, but will include such goals as the following:

Attend and assist onsite customer presentations and engagements, including solution demonstrations
Prepare technical responses to customer proposals and follow up on customer questions
Participate in the development of lab proof-of-concept configurations based on test plans
Deliver training and workshops
Seek to learn and build solutions that fit customer needs

Minimum Qualifications:

A recent Bachelors or Masters graduate with a degree in a related field like Engineering or Computer Science 
Deep and incurable curiosity
Interpersonal and teamwork skills
Strong communications skills, including writing and speaking
You must fluently speak French and English  
The right-to-work in France is essential for this position

Desired Qualifications:

General knowledge of computer networking solutions
Cloud networking and OS virtualization technologies knowledge a plus
Experience with Python or similar scripting languages a plus

Other Information

The working language at Juniper is English
Relocation is not available

Posting Date: 2023-08-09