Principal Field Engineer – AI Demos & Developer Enablement

Showcify, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from US

Travel to events

Premium healthcare

Fertility benefits

Monthly wellness stipend

Job summary

Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. As a Principal Field Engineer, you’ll work across regions and segments, delivering demos, workshops and on-demand training that show Exa’s value to developers and technical buyers.

You’ll travel to conferences, meetups and customer sites, become the go-to expert, and help shape product through field feedback. This remote US role includes premium healthcare, fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend.

Qualifications

• Hands-on programming experience with ability to build polished demos quickly.
• 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role (solutions architect, SE, etc.).
• Proven teaching and speaking to technical audiences: talks, workshops, webinars.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex topics to engineers and executives.
• Self-directed and able to set priorities without quotas.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% including international travel.
• Experience speaking at developer conferences or building a community.
• Hands-on with LLMs, retrieval, and AI search concepts.
• Public-facing work: open-source projects or technical blogs.
• Passion for organizing knowledge and helping developers understand Exa.

Responsibilities

• Build flagship demos, sample apps, and reference architectures for Exa.
• Design and deliver workshops, hands-on labs and technical webinars.
• Create on-demand training content: video tutorials and recorded labs.
• Represent Exa at events: talks, booth demos, hackathons and partner events.
• Start and run meetups and user groups in key cities.
• Be the team's subject-matter expert on Exa's products and use cases.
• Turn launches into field-ready material for sales enablement.
• Partner with Marketing on technical content and events.
• Bring feedback from the field back to Product for iteration.

Skills

Hands-on programming

Technical presales

Public speaking

Excellent communication

Self-directed

Travel up to 50%

LLMs/RAG/agents

Open-source/community

Demos and sample apps

Cross-region collaboration

Job description

Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. As a Principal Field Engineer, you’ll work across regions and segments, delivering demos, workshops and on-demand training that show Exa’s value to developers and technical buyers.

You’ll travel to conferences, meetups and customer sites, become the go-to expert, and help shape product through field feedback. This remote US role includes premium healthcare, fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend.