Founding AI Sales Engineer for Open Models

Featherless AI; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive base + variable pay

Open, hands-on team environment

Job summary

Featherless AI in North America is hiring its first Sales Engineer to pair with the founding Account Executive. You’ll be the technical owner on opportunities, map workloads, run POCs, and design benchmarks to prove Featherless is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than incumbents.

You’ll craft the demo environment and reusable collateral for the GTM team. You will also own security, data handling, and migration guidance, while feeding product and engineering with real customer signals.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in pre-sales engineering or a customer-facing engineering role
• Hands-on Python development and demo-building
• Deep knowledge of modern LLM inference and serving stacks
• Familiarity with Hugging Face open weights ecosystem
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud networking

Responsibilities

• Lead technical calls tailored to buyers' stacks: architecture reviews, live demos, and working code against real use cases
• Build migration paths off closed-model APIs toward open weights
• Run benchmarks and produce throughput, latency, and cost-per-token analyses
• Scope and execute POCs with clear technical success criteria
• Write the technical sections of proposals, RFPs and security questionnaires with reusable answers
• Support onboarding and first production workloads
• Provide feedback to product and engineering on gaps and needs
• Build and maintain technical assets like demo apps and reference architectures

Skills

Python

LLM inference knowledge

Containers/Kubernetes

Cloud networking or security basics

Written communication

Entrepreneurial/self-directed

AI tooling in workflow

Tools

Hugging Face

OpenAI-compatible APIs

TensorRT-LLM

vLLM

Benchmarking tools

Job description

Featherless AI in North America is hiring its first Sales Engineer to pair with the founding Account Executive. You’ll be the technical owner on opportunities, map workloads, run POCs, and design benchmarks to prove Featherless is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than incumbents.

You’ll craft the demo environment and reusable collateral for the GTM team. You will also own security, data handling, and migration guidance, while feeding product and engineering with real customer signals.