Sr. Sales Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineer - Pre Sales)

Accountabilities: • Own technical sales cycles from discovery and solution design through demonstrations, proofs of value, and technical close within strategic enterprise accounts.

• Partner with Account Executives on commercial strategy while independently driving the technical win and resolving technical objections.

• Help customers understand how to observe, trust, and improve AI and agent-based systems across data pipelines, retrieved context, agent decisions, and outputs.

• Design and manage proofs of value with clearly defined success criteria, oversee evaluations, and deliver measurable results that support commercial conversion.

• Identify and develop technical champions within customer organizations through workshops, briefings, architecture reviews, and executive engagements.

• Develop a deep understanding of each customer's data and AI architecture, including where agents operate, how systems are instrumented, and where reliability challenges occur.

• Contribute technical insight to account plans and business reviews while helping drive technical execution across the sales pipeline.

• Support revenue growth by ensuring technical opportunities are properly scoped, validated, and positioned for long-term customer adoption and expansion.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise AI or agent-based systems, or working closely with teams responsible for taking agents from experimentation into production.

• Strong understanding of AI observability concepts, including traces, spans, evaluations, and instrumentation; experience with OpenTelemetry is highly valued.

• 3+ years of experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or strategic technical account management within B2B AI-focused or SaaS organizations, with meaningful enterprise experience.

• Experience navigating enterprise procurement processes, information security reviews, and complex multi-stakeholder buying committees.

• Professional background in data, observability, agent trust, or agent-focused products, with direct experience working within one or more of these domains.

• Ability to combine technical depth with business acumen, including the ability to whiteboard AI or agent architectures and communicate ROI and competitive positioning to senior executives.

• Strong communication skills across technical and executive audiences, from platform engineers to senior data and AI leaders.

• Self-directed and accountable, with the ability to prioritize independently, manage high-value accounts, recognize when to escalate, and challenge assumptions when necessary.

• Experience with modern data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, BigQuery, or similar platforms is preferred.

• Experience with data observability or data quality, enterprise account expansion, MEDDPICC or similar sales frameworks, multi-country enterprise sales, or hands-on prototyping during sales cycles is a plus.

Benefits:

• Base salary range of $240,000–$270,000 annually, plus eligibility for commission.

• Equity through stock options.

• Healthcare plans.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Wellness stipend.

• Home office stipend.

• Cell phone or Wi-Fi reimbursement.

• Paid parental leave.

• Flexible time off.

• Generous travel policy.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Opportunity to work on emerging AI and agent reliability technologies within strategic enterprise accounts.

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