Founding Sales Engineer - Open-Model AI, Equity + Impact

Featherless AI; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Featherless AI is hiring its first Sales Engineer to pair directly with the founding Account Executive in North America. You are the technical half of a two-person deal team: the AE owns the commercial motion, you own the technical win.

You will be hands-on in the customer stack from first technical call through production rollout. Because you're the first SE here, you will build the function as you go: the demo environment, POC playbook, benchmarks, security answers, and migration guides.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years in pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or equivalent customer-facing engineering role in GPU cloud/ML tooling.
• Hands-on Python for demos and building artifacts rather than requests.
• Familiarity with modern LLM inference stacks and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes in cloud environments.
• Strong technical writing for proposals, security questionnaires, and architecture docs.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical calls tailored to buyer stacks with architecture reviews and live demos.
• Build POCs, benchmarks, and migration paths from closed-model APIs to open weights.
• Create and maintain demo environments and reusable technical collateral.
• Own technical objection handling including performance, cost, security, and data handling.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to feed field input and bridge gaps.
• Write technical sections of proposals and respond to RFPs.
• Support onboarding of initial production workloads and ensure smooth handoff.

Skills

Python programming

LLM inference knowledge

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

Technical writing

Pre-sales / solutions architecture

Open-source familiarity

Tools

Docker

GitHub

TensorRT-LLM

OpenAI API

Job description

Featherless AI is hiring its first Sales Engineer to pair directly with the founding Account Executive in North America. You are the technical half of a two-person deal team: the AE owns the commercial motion, you own the technical win.

You will be hands-on in the customer stack from first technical call through production rollout. Because you're the first SE here, you will build the function as you go: the demo environment, POC playbook, benchmarks, security answers, and migration guides.