Forward-Deployed Presales Engineer, AI Platforms

IFS; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401K with Company contribution

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS Loops is seeking a founding member to bridge presales and product, deeply engaging with strategic prospects to uncover agentic use cases and prove them quickly using the IFS loops platform.

You’ll work with Account Executives, Loops product and engineering teams to turn field learnings into native platform capability and train presales on core capabilities. Travel ~25–50% may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience in presales, solutions engineering or forward-deployed roles and strong product intuition.
• Ability to discover, demo PoCs, handle objections and drive technical evaluations to decisions.
• You can distinguish one-off asks from patterns worth building into the platform.
• You are hands-on with agentic AI, multi-agent design and relevant tooling.
• You understand asset-intensive industries and can converse with developers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with prospects and build PoCs demonstrating business value.
• Present PoCs to both technical architects and business leaders.
• Partner with Account Executives to validate technical fit on live deals.
• Collaborate with Loops product and engineering to codify patterns into platform capability.
• Capture field learnings to influence the Agentic roadmap and generate repeatable patterns.
• Train presales on platform capabilities and run workshops globally.

Skills

Presales experience

Solutions engineering

Forward-deployed role

Product instincts

Agentic AI

Multi-agent design

API understanding

Risk and ROI communication

Travel readiness

Tools

Agent Studio

Orchestration tools

Job description

IFS Loops is seeking a founding member to bridge presales and product, deeply engaging with strategic prospects to uncover agentic use cases and prove them quickly using the IFS loops platform.

You’ll work with Account Executives, Loops product and engineering teams to turn field learnings into native platform capability and train presales on core capabilities. Travel ~25–50% may be required.