Founding Sales Engineer — Open-Model AI, Hands-on

Featherless AI; New Brunswick; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive base salary

Small, fast-moving team

Early ownership of GTM function

Job summary

Featherless AI is hiring its first sales engineer to partner with the founding AE in North America. You will own the technical win, run discovery, design POCs, and build the benchmark harness. You’ll create the demo environment and reusable collateral while handling security, cost, and performance questions.

You will be the technical voice into product and engineering, shaping open-model evidence and migration guides for customers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role with rapid ownership.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in pre-sales engineering or customer-facing tech roles.
• Genuinely hands-on: you write Python and build demos.
• Working knowledge of modern LLM inference and serving stacks.
• Familiar with open-model ecosystems and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Comfortable with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical calls tailored to the buyer's stack with architecture reviews and live demos.
• Design, drive POCs and benchmarks proving Featherless against incumbents.
• Build the demo environment and reusable technical collateral.
• Own technical objection handling: performance, cost, security, data handling.
• Write technical sections of proposals and security questionnaires.
• Support onboarding and first production workloads; hand off cleanly.

Skills

Python

LLM inference

Kubernetes

OpenAI APIs

Containers

Security & Compliance

Tools

HubSpot

Notebook demos

Job description

Featherless AI is hiring its first sales engineer to partner with the founding AE in North America. You will own the technical win, run discovery, design POCs, and build the benchmark harness. You’ll create the demo environment and reusable collateral while handling security, cost, and performance questions.

You will be the technical voice into product and engineering, shaping open-model evidence and migration guides for customers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role with rapid ownership.