AI Solutions Engineer — Field Deployment Expert

SailPoint; United States; On-site; USD 106,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness coverage: Medical,

Disability coverage: Short-term and

Life protection: Life insurance and AD

Job summary

SailPoint is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to work at the nexus of solution engineering, professional services, and product management. You will leverage AI tooling and deep implementation expertise to create foundational solutions, accelerate time-to-value for customers, and reduce the cost of traditional services.

You will partner with sales to apply technical skills and business acumen in SailPoint’s growth.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional work experience as part of an enterprise software company, systems integrator, or consulting firm; 3+ years of software implementation or pre-sales experience.
• Excellent communications skills and extensive experience working directly with clients and partners
• A working knowledge of technical infrastructure including web services, application servers, databases, virtualization, and directories is required
• Conversant in modern SaaS architecture
• Experience with agentic coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex
• Familiarity with Java, XML, LDAP, SQL, JSON, Azure/AWS/GCP is desirable
• Experience with the following tech-stack
• NodeJS, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, React.js

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in the sales process and work closely with the direct and channel sales teams
• Discover and understand customer requirements and align our solutions to those requirements, augmenting your expertise with AI tooling
• Participate in onsite and remote foundational implementation engagements
• Educate customers on high-level product architecture, functional design, and best practices
• Assist in the analysis, and documentation of customer requirements and how they map to SailPoint solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like sales, solution engineering, product, professional services, and customer success to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Collaborate with other Forward Deployed Engineering team members to design creative solutions to complex problems
• Master AI and Agentic technologies to solve customer problems
• Contribute to building out Agentic technology solutions that become our standard for demonstrations of SailPoint’s products

Skills

Excellent communications skills

SaaS architecture

Agentic AI tooling

Problem solving

Client-facing

JavaScript

Pre-sales experience

Education

Computer Science or Engineering degree

CISSP certification

SailPoint Certified Engineer or Solution Architect

Tools

NodeJS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Angular

React.js

Job description

SailPoint is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to work at the nexus of solution engineering, professional services, and product management. You will leverage AI tooling and deep implementation expertise to create foundational solutions, accelerate time-to-value for customers, and reduce the cost of traditional services.

You will partner with sales to apply technical skills and business acumen in SailPoint’s growth.