As a sales engineer, you'll combine technical knowledge with sales skills. The balance depends on the level of technical knowledge and understanding you'll need to sell the product you're offering and to respond to clients' queries.

• Searching for new clients who could benefit from your products in a designated region
• Visit potential clients
• Establishing new, and maintaining existing, relationships with customers
• Managing and interpreting customer requirements
• Persuading clients that a product or service will best satisfy their needs
• Meeting regular sales targets
• Recording and maintaining client contact data
• Help clients solve problems with installed equipment
• Recommend improved materials or machinery to customers, showing how changes will lower costs or increase production

• Sales engineers typically need a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. (However, a worker without a degree, but with previous sales experience as well as technical experience or training, sometimes holds the title of sales engineer.)