Sales Engineer Jobs

Sales engineering is where deep technical expertise meets commercial acumen, and Ireland's market has a distinctive twist: Limerick leads Dublin for once, with 15 of the 43 active roles driven by the semiconductor sector.

Analog Devices at Raheen Business Park, Limerick dominates with 16 positions — by far the largest sales engineering employer. These are Field Application Engineers and Applications Engineers who work directly with customers designing ADI's analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing products into electronic systems. This is engineering-first sales: understanding customer circuit designs, recommending optimal components, and debugging hardware issues alongside the customer's engineering team.

Canonical has 9 sales engineering positions — a different flavour entirely, focused on selling Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, and other open source infrastructure products to enterprise customers. These are pre-sales roles requiring deep Linux, cloud, and Kubernetes expertise to run technical demos, build proof-of-concept deployments, and respond to RFP technical sections.

The remaining positions come from high-growth SaaS and infrastructure companies. Datadog and Docker each recruit 2 solutions engineers for their observability and container platform products. onsemi adds another semiconductor applications engineering role. Camunda, Ethyca, Fivetran, and Gong.io each have single positions for pre-sales engineers covering EMEA.

What skills are needed? For semiconductor roles, a strong electronics or electrical engineering degree is essential, with expertise in analog circuit design, power management, signal processing, or embedded systems. For software sales engineering, the requirement shifts to cloud architecture, API integration, Linux system administration, and the ability to run compelling live technical demonstrations. The career path runs from Applications Engineer and Solutions Engineer through Senior SE to SE Manager and Director of Pre-Sales — a hybrid track that combines engineering credibility with commercial impact.

The Limerick-Dublin split in sales engineering reflects a broader truth about Ireland's tech economy: not all high-value technology careers require a Dublin postcode. Analog Devices' Limerick campus is one of the most significant semiconductor engineering operations in Europe, and the applications engineering roles based there offer the rare combination of deep technical work, customer-facing engagement, and competitive compensation outside the capital. For software-focused sales engineers, Dublin's SaaS ecosystem provides continuous opportunities at companies scaling from startup to enterprise, with the pre-sales function increasingly recognised as one of the highest-impact roles in any go-to-market organisation.