Associate Sales Engineer

The role

You will support the technical side of customer conversations by translating electrical specifications and diagrams into quotes and proposals. You will work with sales, engineering, and operations teams to support discovery calls and move opportunities through the workflow.

What you will do

• Join and support first calls with prospective customers to understand needs and requirements
• Review customer documentation and translate it into standard inputs for the quoting process
• Partner with the engineering team to scope standard builds
• Support the quote-to-close technical workflow
• Help build and refine internal software tooling and processes
• Serve as a technical point of contact between customers and internal teams
• Contribute customer insights back to product and engineering

Required qualifications

• 0–2 years in a sales engineering, applications engineering, technical pre-sales, or adjacent technical role
• Foundational knowledge of industrial control panels, motor controls, PLCs, VFDs, or related electrical equipment
• Ability to read a single-line diagram
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Customer-obsessed mindset
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment

Nice to have

• Degree or coursework in electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related technical discipline
• Internship or project experience in industrial end markets (data centers, utilities, manufacturing, energy, water/wastewater)
• Exposure to UL 508A standards

About the company

Podium Automation is reimagining industrial control panel manufacturing through software-enabled design and automated fabrication. They are building technology to reduce lead times for critical electrical equipment.