Enterprise AI Solutions Engineer (Equity Eligible)

Vectara; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Healthcare account (HSA/FSA)

PTO & holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Vectara seeks an experienced Sales Engineer to join our growing team in the Bay Area. You’ll connect customers with the power of our agent platform, translating capabilities into business value and owning the technical relationship throughout the journey.

You will collaborate with Sales, Customer Success and Professional Services to learn, evaluate, and deploy production applications, deliver impactful demos, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and guide customers from evaluation to successful adoption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Sales Engineering experience in AI/ML, analytics or data engineering
• Experience selling technical products to AI, Data, or IT orgs in large enterprises
• 2+ years of Professional Services or internal development in large enterprises
• Experience with agentic AI development spanning context to gatekeeper - skills, tools, guardrails
• Development experience with Python and/or Java
• Experience developing apps that heavily consume REST services
• Understanding of cloud-based SaaS, VPC, multi-tenancy and automation
• Understanding of on premise hardware, GPUs, virtualization (K8s) and networking
• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• Willingness to travel up to 20%
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; MS a plus
• Location: US West Required, Bay Area preferred

Responsibilities

• Providing technical product expertise
• Conducting demos, including custom-built ones
• Helping with POCs
• Assisting customers with architecture, design, and development
• Scoping and planning PS projects
• Evaluating performance of retrieval and agentic pipelines for enterprise requirements
• Responding to RFIs/RFPs with persuasive tech arguments
• Regularly updating customers on new features and expanded usage
• Communicating feedback to internal teams to improve product and processes

Skills

Sales Engineering

Enterprise sales

Python

REST APIs

Agentic AI development

Public speaking

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Java

Job description

Vectara seeks an experienced Sales Engineer to join our growing team in the Bay Area. You’ll connect customers with the power of our agent platform, translating capabilities into business value and owning the technical relationship throughout the journey.

You will collaborate with Sales, Customer Success and Professional Services to learn, evaluate, and deploy production applications, deliver impactful demos, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and guide customers from evaluation to successful adoption.