First Sales Engineer - AI Inference Platform

Featherless AI; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base + equity

Job summary

Featherless AI is seeking its first Sales Engineer in North America. You will pair with the founding AE, owning the technical win from discovery to production rollout. You’ll craft demos, run POCs, and build a repeatable technical playbook for a fast-moving GTM engine.

You’ll work with developers, ML engineers, and CTOs, showing that open models on Featherless are faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Competitive base + equity accompany this role.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in pre-sales engineering or similar customer-facing role at a GPU cloud, inference provider, or MLOps company.
• Hands-on Python; able to build demos without relying on others.
• Deep knowledge of modern LLM inference and serving stacks, quantization, and cost factors.
• Familiar with the open-model ecosystem (Hugging Face, open weights).
• Comfort with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud networking/security basics.
• Excellent written communication; able to document benchmarks and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical calls tailored to buyers' stacks with architecture reviews and live demos.
• Build migration plans from closed APIs to open weights and evaluation parity.
• Run benchmarks: throughput, latency, cost-per-token; anchor business cases.
• Scope and execute POCs with clear success criteria and documentation.
• Write technical sections of proposals and security questionnaires; maintain reusable answers.
• Support onboarding and first production workloads; ensure smooth handoffs.
• Provide feedback to product/engineering on gaps and requirements.

Skills

Pre-sales engineering

Solutions architecture

Customer-facing engineering

Python

LLM inference

Open-model ecosystem

Containers

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

Technical writing

Benchmarking

Tools

HubSpot CRM

Jupyter/Notebooks

Job description

Featherless AI is seeking its first Sales Engineer in North America. You will pair with the founding AE, owning the technical win from discovery to production rollout. You’ll craft demos, run POCs, and build a repeatable technical playbook for a fast-moving GTM engine.

You’ll work with developers, ML engineers, and CTOs, showing that open models on Featherless are faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Competitive base + equity accompany this role.