Presales Engineer - Central/Midwest
Posted Jul 20, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a time you had to design a public safety communications solution for a customer with a really tight budget and a long wish list. How did you decide what to cut and what to keep?
What they are checking: whether the candidate can balance technical ambition against real-world constraints while keeping the customer relationship intact
Tell me about a bid or proposal you built where the standard product didn't quite fit the customer's requirements. What did you do?
What they are checking: experience working with product groups to customize solutions rather than just reselling off-the-shelf configurations
Tell me about a time a technical implementation didn't go the way you planned during commissioning or testing. What went wrong and what did you do next?
What they are checking: troubleshooting instincts and composure when a deployment hits real problems
Give me an example of when you had to challenge a customer's assumption about what technology they needed. How did that conversation go?
What they are checking: willingness to push back constructively and confidence in technical judgment, tied to the posting's call for challenging the status quo
Tell me about a project where you had to work closely with operations and outside developers to hit a customer's delivery deadline. What was your role in keeping it on track?
What they are checking: cross-functional coordination skills and accountability for delivery timelines beyond just the design phase
What would you do
Say a police department comes to you wanting to move from a P25 land mobile radio system toward LTE-based mobile broadband, but they're worried about coverage gaps in rural county areas. How would you approach that conversation and the technical assessment?
What they are checking: depth of knowledge across LMR and LTE architectures and the ability to translate coverage tradeoffs into terms a non-technical buyer understands
Describe a situation where sales made a commitment to a customer that you knew, from an engineering standpoint, was going to be hard to deliver. What did you do?
What they are checking: how the candidate navigates tension between sales promises and technical reality without damaging trust
If a utility company customer asked you to integrate their dispatch console and CAD system with a new mobile data network, how would you scope that project from first customer conversation to final proposal?
What they are checking: understanding of end-to-end solution scoping across integrated command and control systems
This role covers the Central and Midwest territory with up to 25 percent travel. How do you manage keeping multiple customer accounts and proposals moving at once when you're on the road a lot?
What they are checking: organizational skills and ability to juggle a multi-state territory without dropping deals or deadlines
About the work
How would you explain the tradeoffs between APCO P25 and commercial LTE networks to a fire chief who has never heard either term before?
What they are checking: ability to translate complex wireless standards into plain language for non-technical stakeholders
What do you look at first when you're asked to do an RF coverage prediction for a new deployment area?
What they are checking: hands-on familiarity with RF modeling tools and process, not just theoretical knowledge
How comfortable are you with IP networking protocols and security when a customer's IT team starts asking pointed questions about how your solution sits on their network?
What they are checking: depth of IP networking knowledge and whether the candidate can hold their own against a skeptical technical audience
What's your experience with real-time video and data analytics for law enforcement, and how do you see that fitting alongside traditional voice and data networks in a proposal?
What they are checking: whether the candidate keeps current with newer intelligence-led public safety technology, not just legacy radio systems
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