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Sales Engineer

Adecco Permanent Recruitment
San Diego, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/30/2026

Sales Engineer – Robotics, Imaging & Automation


We’re growing and looking for a Sales Engineer or Sales Manager who can build long‑term global OEM relationships and help customers solve complex technical challenges in robotics, drones, autonomous systems, and advanced imaging.

If you love translating engineering needs into real-world solutions—and want to work closely with engineering and manufacturing—this could be a great fit.


This role is onsite, Monday–Friday with a collaborative, high‑ownership team.


What You’ll Do:

  • Manage OEM customer relationships from first conversation through production
  • Prospect and qualify new accounts across robotics, drone, imaging, and automotive automation markets
  • Translate technical requirements into viable optical/camera solutions in partnership with engineering
  • Prepare quotes, proposals, and oversee order flow
  • Communicate project status, timelines, and technical details to customers
  • Represent the company at key industry events (SPIE, Automate, VISION)
  • Build long-term, solution-focused partnerships—not transactional sales


What You’ll Need:

  • STEM degree preferred (Engineering, Physics, Optics, Robotics, etc.)
  • Industry experience in imaging, optics, robotics, or cameras can substitute
  • 1–2 years of experience in a technical, engineering, or customer-facing role
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work through complex challenges
  • Excellent communicator able to simplify technical concepts
  • Organized, self-directed, and comfortable owning your workflow
  • Social, outgoing, and globally minded


Preferred

  • Experience with optics, imaging, robotics, drones, or related technologies
  • Background in B2B solution sales or OEM account management
  • Familiarity working alongside engineering/manufacturing teams


Who Thrives Here

You enjoy a small-team environment, working hands-on, collaborating with engineers, solving complex customer challenges, and building relationships that last years—not weeks.


If you meet the above qualifications and would like to apply for this position, you may email your up-to-date, professional CV/resume to Tim Dameron @ timothy.dameron@adeccona.com.


Perfect placements. Speedy staffing. Tenacious testing. Who’s Adecco, we hear you ask? Only the top provider of first-class HR solutions. Our consultants work with some of the best, and most exciting, companies all over the world. We equip our clients with priceless industry insight and put everything we’ve got into training and mentoring our candidates.

We’re here to match talented people with the job opportunities and employers they’re looking for. On any given day we connect over 700,000 people with fulfilling opportunities that make the most of their skills now and enable them to develop new expertise for the future.


Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Salary : $100,000 - $110,000

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