First Sales Engineer for Open-Models | AI GTM Architect

Featherless AI; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base + equity

Job summary

Featherless AI in the United States seeks a hands-on Sales Engineer to pair with the founding AE in North America. You’ll own the technical win, run discovery, design POCs, and build benchmarks and collateral that prove open models are faster, cheaper, and more reliable than incumbents.

You’ll author security answers, migration guides, and technical sections of proposals while shaping the GTM engine as the first SE on the team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in pre-sales engineering or similar customer-facing role.
• Hands-on: you write Python and build demos.
• Experience with modern LLM inference serving and related tooling.
• Familiarity with open-model ecosystems and evaluation processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical calls tailored to each buyer's stack with live demos.
• Design and drive POCs and benchmarks showing Featherless advantage.
• Build migration paths off closed-model APIs onto open weights.
• Write and maintain technical sections of proposals and security docs.
• Support onboarding and first production workloads, then enable scale.

Skills

Python scripting

LLM inference knowledge

Kubernetes

Open models ecosystem

Strong written communication

Tools

Docker

HubSpot CRM

Job description

Featherless AI in the United States seeks a hands-on Sales Engineer to pair with the founding AE in North America. You’ll own the technical win, run discovery, design POCs, and build benchmarks and collateral that prove open models are faster, cheaper, and more reliable than incumbents.

You’ll author security answers, migration guides, and technical sections of proposals while shaping the GTM engine as the first SE on the team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role.