Enterprise Healthcare Tech Sales Engineer

Proximie Limited; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Proximie Limited in Chicago seeks a Sales Engineer to bridge sales and engineering, translating complex medical software concepts into clear conversations with health systems. You will support RFP responses, review IT requirements, and guide customers through integration, security, and cloud architecture.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering, and requires hands-on networking and SaaS deployment knowledge.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or Technical Pre-Sales role, ideally in a SaaS or health tech environment.
• Strong foundational knowledge of networking and infrastructure, including hospital network environments (VLANs, firewalls, SSO/SAML, Active Directory).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and how cloud-based software integrates with on-premises hospital systems.
• Ability to analyze systems, understand what is happening, and fix configurations in the field (not required to be a developer).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to speak with innovation leaders, IT directors, and C-suite stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical resource during the sales cycle, joining commercial conversations to address product, software, networking, and integration questions.
• Lead technical discovery conversations with hospital IT, innovation, and procurement stakeholders on topics like SSO, network requirements, hardware, cloud architecture, and data flow.
• Translate customer requirements into clearly scoped questions or change requests for engineering and product teams.
• Build and maintain a strong partnership with Engineering, connecting field insights with internal teams to ensure customer needs are understood and addressed.
• Troubleshoot integration and configuration issues in the field, identifying root causes and driving resolution.
• Identify recurring technical friction points across deals and escalate patterns to product/engineering to inform the roadmap.
• Support onboarding of new health system customers by bridging sales and implementation handoffs.
• Maintain documentation of technical configurations, customer environments, and common integration patterns.

Skills

Sales engineering

Networking knowledge

Cloud platforms

Healthcare experience

Communication skills

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Proximie Limited in Chicago seeks a Sales Engineer to bridge sales and engineering, translating complex medical software concepts into clear conversations with health systems. You will support RFP responses, review IT requirements, and guide customers through integration, security, and cloud architecture.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering, and requires hands-on networking and SaaS deployment knowledge.