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Automate America is an industrial automation marketplace where manufacturers connect with skilled technical sales contractors. Browse professional profiles, review project histories, and send a direct work request. Projects typically receive qualified contractor responses within 24 hours.
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What does a technical sales engineer do in industrial automation?
A technical sales engineer scopes a customer’s automation problem, specs the equipment to solve it, and builds the proposal and quote. They run discovery, size PLCs, robots, drives, and sensors, justify ROI and cycle time, prepare demos, and hand a technically vetted package to engineering after the order lands. They blend controls knowledge with commercial skill.
What is the difference between a technical sales engineer and an application engineer?
An application engineer focuses on solution design, feasibility, and configuration — the deep technical proof. A technical sales engineer owns the commercial relationship and the quote while carrying enough engineering credibility to scope correctly. The roles overlap heavily; on smaller teams one contractor does both, qualifying the opportunity and engineering the solution.
How much do technical sales engineer contractors charge?
Technical sales engineers on the platform typically post $55–$110 per hour. Junior pre-sales and application support sit near the low end; senior engineers with a robotics, drives, or controls specialty and a proven closing record reach the upper end. Rate depends on domain depth and the complexity of the systems being sold.
What skills should a contract technical sales engineer have?
The strongest blend genuine engineering knowledge — PLCs, robotics, drives, vision, and reading schematics — with commercial ability: discovery, scope-of-work writing, ROI justification, demos, and negotiation. CRM fluency (Salesforce, HubSpot) and experience with vendor product configurators round out a contractor who can both spec accurately and close.
When should a company hire a contract technical sales engineer?
Common triggers are covering a territory during a hiring gap, launching a new product line, supporting a major bid, or bringing specialized domain expertise — robotics, machine vision, or drives — that a generalist rep lacks. Contract engagement gets credible pre-sales coverage without committing to a full-time headcount.
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