As a Junior Aerospace Products Sales Engineer, you work alongside senior SEs while learning the technical sales work for aerospace products — supporting discovery calls, technical proposals, and customer engagement for aerospace components and systems. The work tends to be supervised and aerospace-specialty focused.
Junior Aerospace Products Sales Engineer / Aerospace Products Sales Engineer I pay typically runs $71K–$91K at this level, and jobs in this field are projected to grow 6% through 2034.
Most days mix supervised technical sales work with structured learning — supporting senior SEs on customer applications, learning aerospace product specifications, attending customer meetings and demos, helping with technical proposals, and partnering with senior staff and account teams. You're often working at aerospace manufacturers, defense aerospace, or specialty space organizations, and the customer mix — commercial, defense, space — shapes early work.
What tends to be harder than people expect is the niche aerospace technical depth combined with regulatory frameworks. AS9100, FAA, and specialty aerospace standards, long sales cycles, and specialty product knowledge all develop together. Mentorship quality, security clearances in defense work, and technical depth in specific product areas shape early growth.
People who tend to thrive here are technically credible, comfortable with aerospace specialty work, willing to learn from senior SEs, and patient with long aerospace cycles. If you want fast iteration, aerospace runs slowly. If you like building a foundation in aerospace technical sales, the early years open paths toward senior SE, account executive, or specialty aerospace commercial roles.
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As a Junior Aerospace Products Sales Engineer, you work alongside senior SEs while learning the technical sales work for aerospace products — supporting discovery calls, technical proposals, and customer engagement for aerospace components and systems. The work tends to be supervised and aerospace-specialty focused.
Median pay for a Junior Aerospace Products Sales Engineer / Aerospace Products Sales Engineer I is about $122K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $71K to $203K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Speaking, Persuasion, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, and Social Perceptiveness.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 5.5% through 2034, with roughly 56,690 people working in it today (BLS).
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