Associate Sales Engineer Graduate

This 48-week program will build foundational knowledge of networking concepts, develop pre-sales skills, and provide opportunities to contribute across multiple areas of the Sales Engineering organization, including:

• Participate in program enhancements and the deployment of best practices.
• Respond to technical pre-sales inquiries from partners and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate on projects that expand your product knowledge and understanding of sales engineering practices.
• Attend and assist with onsite and remote customer presentations and engagements.
• Support solution demonstrations and technical discussions.
• Prepare technical responses to customer proposals and follow up on customer questions.
• Participate in developing lab proof-of-concept configurations based on defined test plans.
• Deliver training sessions and workshops.
• Learn customer requirements and help develop solutions aligned with their business needs.
• Build familiarity with both Juniper Networks and HPE Aruba Networking technologies.

At the completion of the program, you will have developed foundational pre-sales capabilities and pursued certifications across the Juniper and Aruba technology portfolios.

The program includes:

• Foundational training across the Juniper and Aruba technology portfolios during the first 12 weeks.
• New-hire training during the first few weeks of the program.
• Weekly hands-on labs.
• Weekly demonstration practice.
• Biweekly mentoring activities.
• Participation in HPE Tech Jam.
• Guest speakers and additional learning opportunities.
• Third-party pre-sales coaching through Mastering Technical Sales.
• Participation in Sales Kick-Off activities.

You may be a strong fit if you:

• Have independently taught yourself a language, tool, technology, or skill.
• Have explored technology through a home lab, hackathon, personal project, certification, or similar activity.
• Have experience in a customer-facing role such as retail, hospitality, sales, support, or service.
• Have led a team, club, shift, organization, project, event, or similar activity.
• Have taught, tutored, trained, mentored, or presented to others.
• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Can manage multiple deadlines and changing priorities.
• Work effectively as part of a team and are willing to learn collaboratively.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in any field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Early-career experience, including up to two years of experience in sales engineering, network operations, technical support, customer service, sales, leadership, or another related area.
• Demonstrated self-directed learning, such as independently acquiring a skill, tool, certification, or technology.
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States. Employment eligibility will be verified in accordance with applicable law.
• Willingness to relocate to Houston, Texas.
• Willingness to relocate after program completion to an available Sales Engineer position identified by HPE Networking field leadership. The post-program location may be anywhere in the United States.

• Degree or coursework in engineering, computer science, information technology, networking, or a related technical field.
• General knowledge of computer networking concepts and solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud networking or operating-system virtualization technologies.
• Experience with Python or a similar scripting language.
• A home lab, personal technology project, or independently earned certification.
• Leadership experience, such as serving as a team captain, resident assistant, club officer, shift lead, volunteer leader, ROTC participant, Scout leader, or in an equivalent role.
• Internship experience, whether technical or nontechnical.
• Experience founding or leading a project, club, side business, event, or similar initiative.