Associate Sales Engineer - Security Solutions & Demo Engineering

About the role

Cisco's Cybersecurity Sales Engineering team in the ASEAN territory is looking for an Associate Sales Engineer in Singapore. The team partners with sales, TAC, customer success and partners to design and deliver security architectures, and this role gives the team more hands on the build side: turning validated use cases and requirements into customized demos and proofs of concept so senior SEs can focus on customers. It is an on-ramp into full-scope Sales Engineering, not a permanent behind-the-scenes function.

Key responsibilities

• Turn customer use cases and requirements handed off by senior SEs or account teams into working, customized demo environments and proofs of concept.
• Build, configure and script across the security portfolio (Hybrid Mesh Firewall, Secure Access & Identity, AI Security, XDR, SASE, Hypershield) to represent real customer scenarios.
• Use AI-assisted tools to automate demo builds, environment setup and repetitive configuration, shortening the time from requirement to working proof of concept.
• Maintain, refresh and troubleshoot demo/POC environments so they stay reliable and reusable.
• Work closely with senior SEs to understand the why behind a design and flag technical gaps or better-fit approaches.
• Document builds and configurations so environments can be handed off, reused or extended.
• Collaborate with TAC, customer success and partners on product gaps, bugs or integration questions, and take on more customer-facing work as product knowledge grows.

Required profile

• Technical background (computer science, IT, engineering or equivalent) with 2-3 years of relevant hands-on experience.
• Comfortable with programmability: scripting (Python or similar), APIs, automation tools, infrastructure-as-code or network/security device programmability.
• Practical experience using AI tools to design, build or automate, and a genuine interest in getting faster and better with them.
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and comfort in ambiguous, not fully specified environments.
• Good communication skills to explain technical decisions to senior engineers and, eventually, customers.
• Nice to have: networking or security fundamentals, a Cisco/cloud/security certification, virtualization/lab platform experience (dCloud, VMs, containers), and prior POC/demo or automation project experience.