Sales Engineer - Placement Student

Keysight Technologies; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight Technologies invites motivated undergraduates to join a 12-month industrial placement in the UK. You will rotate through Sales, Technical and Support organisations, gaining practical engineering, technical sales and commercial experience before graduation.

You will interact with customers and internal teams, develop hands-on skills with test instruments, and contribute to lead generation and market analysis activities.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics, Embedded Systems, Telecommunications Engineering or a related STEM discipline.
• Core skills include excellent English communication, strong analytical ability, teamwork, proactive learning and accountability.
• Proficiency in MS Office and exposure to data analysis tools would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Gain knowledge of current and future technologies and market trends within aerospace, defence, semiconductor, communications and automotive industries.
• Learn remote pre- and post-sales technical support, gaining hands-on skills with Keysight core products.
• Interface with customers, sales and service reps to handle technical and non-technical enquiries, ensuring timely resolutions.
• Collaborate with sales, service centre and partner companies to support day-to-day operations and customer demos.
• Learn to create, qualify and progress high-value business opportunities via lead generation and market analysis.

Skills

English communication

Analytical skills

Team player

Proactive learner

Accountability

MS Office

Data analysis tools

Education

Electronics Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Communications Engineering

Mechatronics

Physics

Embedded Systems

Telecommunications Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

LabVIEW

CRM platforms

Job description

Overview

Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.

At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture. Learn more about our benefits.

Responsibilities

Do you want to find a placement that will use your technical skills and knowledge and also give you real hands on problem solving, commercial and business experience?

Join Keysight Technologies where you’ll be working in a stimulating, open and dynamic environment, supporting the needs of Keysight’s customers through a program of activities developed to support Keysight’s Sales, Technical and Support Organisations along with those of our strategic partner companies.

During your internship you will spend time in each of Keysight’s customer focused organisations, primarily you will:

• Gain knowledge of the current and future technologies and market trends within the Aerospace, Defence, Semiconductor, Communications and Automotive industries.
• Learn how to provide remote pre and post-sales technical support, with the opportunity to gain valuable technical skills, knowledge and hands on experience with Keysight’s core products, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, vector network analysers (VNA), RF signal generators, power meters, data acquisition systems and electronic test instrumentation.
• You will be responsible for interfacing with existing or potential customers, sales and/or service representatives to handle a variety of technical and non-technical enquiries, ensuring a timely resolution to a high level of customer satisfaction at all times.
• You will be working in close collaboration with Keysight’s sales team, service centre organisation and those of our partner companies to provide day-to-day operational assistance including handling incoming enquiries, supporting the service centre in the repair and calibration of instruments and provide customer demo and onsite event support.
• Learn how to create, qualify and progress high value business opportunities to the sales and support organisation. This will include lead generation campaigns, market analysis and opportunity research.

This is an exciting and diverse role where you will gain experience of working for the world’s leading supplier of Test & Measurement products within the UK’s dynamic technology industry for 12 months.

Qualifications

Students currently pursuing a degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics, Embedded Systems, Telecommunications Engineering or a related STEM discipline.

Core skills required:

• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong analytical skills to analyse and solve technical problems
• High energy, a good attitude and team player
• Proactive and willingness to learn
• Accountability and strong organisational skills
• Competence in the use of MS Office software
• Exposure to data analysis tools, CRM platforms and engineering software such as MATLAB, Python or LabVIEW would be beneficial.

This 12-month industrial placement (year in industry) is designed for undergraduate students seeking practical engineering, technical sales and commercial experience before graduation.

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