CareerPlan

Sales Engineering Specialist

Melbourne, VictoriaFull-time2026-10-23 → 2026-11-11

Core

Design and lead technical solutions for fixed-transport networks, including optical architecture, solution strategy, and customer engagement for a strategic telecommunications service provider.

Role type

Senior Sales Engineer (Optical Networking)

Builds

Deployable fixed-transport network solutions and technical proposals for telecommunications carriers.

Domain

Telecommunications / Optical Networking

Required skills

DWDM, Layer 0 optical transport, optical link engineering, link budgets, OTN, Carrier Ethernet, IP, coherent optical transmission (100G/400G), optical design tools

Preferred skills

Tier 1 carrier experience, multi-vendor environments, network automation, SDN, data-centre interconnect, cloud connectivity

Technologies

DWDM, OTN, Carrier Ethernet, IP, 100G, 400G, 800G

Responsibilities

Lead technical development of sales opportunities including solution strategy and architecture; Engage customer engineering and commercial stakeholders to develop practical solutions; Prepare technical responses for RFPs and RFQs; Develop high-level network architectures and review detailed engineering outputs; Deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, and workshops; Collaborate with sales, product, and delivery teams to capture best practices.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC