At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical wins and design innovative solutions for Featherless.ai across North America.
- Company: Join a pioneering AI startup focused on transforming the tech landscape.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic startup culture with a chance to shape the sales engineering function.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of AI technology and make a significant impact in a growing field.
- Qualifications: 3-6 years in presales engineering, strong Python skills, and knowledge of LLM inference.
The predicted salary is between 108000 - 132000 $ per year.
Lead technical wins for Featherless.ai across North America, using Python and modern LLM inference expertise with developers, ML engineers, and CTOs. As the first Sales Engineer, you will pair with the founding Account Executive as the technical owner for active opportunities. You will evaluate workloads, design proofs of concept, run benchmarks, and demonstrate open-model inference against incumbent solutions. The role combines customer-facing engineering with building the sales engineering function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the founding Account Executive on opportunities
- Run discovery across models, workloads, latency, throughput, and spend
- Design POCs and benchmarks against incumbent solutions
- Lead architecture reviews, live demos, and working code
- Build reusable demos, collateral, migration guides, and answer libraries
Requirements:
- Three to six years in presales engineering or solutions architecture
- Comfortable writing Python and building technical demonstrations
- Knowledge of LLM inference, serving stacks, APIs, and quantization
- Familiarity with Hugging Face and open-model evaluation
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, cloud networking, and security fundamentals
- Bring hands-on Python, LLM inference, and customer-facing engineering skills to build Featherless.ai's technical sales foundation.
Founding AI Sales Engineer in Toronto employer: Featherless AI
Featherless is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and innovative work culture, perfect for those passionate about AI and technology. As a Founding AI Business Development Representative, you'll enjoy unique growth opportunities while working alongside industry leaders in the US/CA, all within a supportive environment that encourages collaboration and creativity. Join us to make a meaningful impact in the AI landscape and be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to democratizing AI.
