Outside Sales Associate - San Diego

Outside Sales Engineer

Rust Automation and Controls is a family-owned industrial instrumentation and automation sales company founded in 1976 and headquartered in West Jordan, Utah. For more than 50 years, we have supported customers across the Western United States with measurement and control solutions that keep critical operations running. While headquartered in Utah, our experienced sales team is located throughout our territory, delivering responsive local support backed by deep technical expertise. We serve industries including oil and gas, water and wastewater, power generation, manufacturing, food and beverage, and life sciences, offering products, application support, training, and ongoing service.

Position: Outside Sales Engineer Location: Irvine, CA (Remote role but must reside in this territory)

We're hiring a small group of Outside Sales Engineers into a new cohort program. You'll spend part of your first twelve weeks in Salt Lake City with our leadership team and part of it in your home territory, riding with experienced salesmen, learning the products, and setting your own appointments. You're hired full-time from day one.

The job itself: you become the person a plant engineer calls when they're deciding which flow meter or valve goes into a system that has to run for the next twenty years without failing. You represent the manufacturers we've partnered with for decades, and you build the kind of relationship where customers call you before they call anyone else.

Qualifications & Profile

• Technical degree or 23 years of industrial sales experience (or related field)
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently within the assigned territory, including occasional overnight travel
• Self-motivated with the ability to set ambitious goals and achieve them
• Strong desire to learn, grow, and be coachable
• Resilient, adaptable, and solution-oriented with a positive, can-do attitude
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a customer-first mindset
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to work independently while leveraging internal resources
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and CRM/ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce)
• Remote role but must reside in this territory

Pay and Path

The program starts from $85,000 - $90,000. Complete the 12 week program, get placed into your territory, and that moves to a target of $110,000. From there its performance based, and our top OSEs make well beyond that. Rust Automation offers health and 401(k) benefits, including a company match, and a clear career pathway through our organization.

Is This You?

• Do you have a pioneering spirit and enjoy working for a growing company with a strong culture?
• Do you thrive in a motivated, team-oriented environment focused on customer solutions?
• Do you enjoy solving problems and taking on challenges?
• Do you strive to exemplify excellence in everything you do?

If you answered YES, Rust Automation & Controls would love to welcome you to our family.