Technical Sales Specialist, Quantum Hardware

Technical Sales Specialist, Quantum Hardware

Location: Hybrid in Manchester NH

Travel: 30 to 50 percent

A confidential advanced technology manufacturer is hiring a highly technical sales specialist to help grow business across quantum, RF, and cryogenic applications. This is a high-visibility role for someone who enjoys working at the edge of emerging hardware markets, partnering with sophisticated customers, and helping shape how complex technical solutions are brought to market. The position offers the chance to influence strategy, build trusted customer relationships, and play a meaningful role in the expansion of next-generation applications.

This Role Offers

• Competitive benefits package, including strong health coverage, retirement support, and a schedule designed to support work life balance.
• A visible role with real influence on customer growth, market direction, and product positioning.
• The opportunity to engage with highly technical customers across research, industrial, and advanced hardware environments.
• A collaborative culture where technical depth and commercial initiative are both valued.

Focus

• Open new revenue opportunities with research labs, OEMs, and advanced hardware teams working in quantum, cryogenic, and high frequency environments.
• Turn loosely defined technical requirements into practical component recommendations by partnering with internal engineering and operations teams.
• Lead customer conversations, technical presentations, and solution discussions for specialized RF, microwave, and low temperature applications.
• Help advance early-stage opportunities from discovery through quotation, handoff, and program coordination.
• Track market signals, competitive activity, and emerging use cases to help shape account strategy and future product priorities.
• Build credibility with technical and commercial stakeholders, serving as a trusted resource during complex buying cycles.
• Represent the organization at customer visits, conferences, and industry events tied to emerging hardware markets.
• Contribute market insight that helps guide longer-term growth initiatives, partnership development, and solution evolution.

Skill Set

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Several years of experience in technical sales, applications engineering, field engineering, or another customer-facing technical role.
• Ability to communicate credibly around RF, microwave, cryogenic, or similarly complex engineered systems.
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to translate technical detail into practical business value.
• Comfort operating in evolving markets where customer requirements may not be fully defined at the outset.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed.
• Experience with engineering documentation, technical data, or lab-oriented environments is helpful.
• Exposure to quantum-adjacent markets or emerging physics-based technologies is a plus.

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