Intern – Sales Engineering

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Are you looking for a role in which you can work closely with customers and partners, make a business impact, and learn as sales engineer professional? 

This role is responsible for providing Sales Engineering support to grow business. As a member of the CALA Sales Engineering team you will work closely with Sales engineering team as well as partners, Sales, Marketing and Operations to execute account-specific strategies based on account-specific business and solution focus areas.  

If you can do all this with integrity, creativity, a keen focus on agility and results, and a desire to help build the best Sales Engineering team in the industry, we want to speak to you!

Typical Duties, Responsibilities and Profile

• Candidates have to be studying Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology and will be supporting the Sales Engineering and Sales teams in Brazil.
• Good communication, easy interaction, and open for learning a lot!
• Have interest on Software (programming languages) and Data communications, IP technology is a must
• Graduation planned for Dec/2026. (2 years of internship)
• Able to develop 30 to 32 hours of internship per week

Candidate Profile

• Proven interpersonal skills through alignment of cross-functional and multi-divisional activities in a highly collaborative, team-oriented, and fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational, administrative and planning skills.
• Fluent in Portuguese, and English. Spanish is also desired.
• Ability and confidence to work in a virtual team, in a sales-oriented environment
• Track record with experience in using social, online, and traditional social principles and techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized and motivated
• Technology savvy.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• Confident self-starter

Education & Experience

• Graduation planned for Dec/2026 (2 years of internship)
• Previous internship experience is a plus.
• Understanding of telecommunications including optical, 5G and IP networks is highly desirable.
• Ability to analyze data and provide insights
• Excellent writing & oral communication skills

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