Remote Pioneer Sales Engineer for Open-Model AI

PromptCube; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Variable compensation tied to team’s成果

Job summary

Featherless AI is hiring its first Sales Engineer to pair with the founding AE in North America. You own the technical win from first call through production rollout, building the demo environment, POC playbooks, benchmarks, security answers, and migration guides that scale the GTM team.

As the first SE, you will work directly with developers, ML engineers, and CTOs to prove open-models are faster, cheaper, and more reliable than incumbent solutions. Remote-friendly across US & Canada.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture or a customer-facing engineering role.
• Hands-on Python with demos rather than requests from others.
• Experience with modern LLM inference stacks and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Familiarity with Hugging Face and open-weight families.
• Comfortable with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud networking/security basics.
• Credible communicating to both ML engineers and CTOs.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed as the first SE on a GTM team.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical calls tailored to buyer stack: architecture reviews, live demos, and working code against real use cases.
• Build migration paths off closed-model APIs onto open weights; cover model selection, evaluation, prompt/output parity, cutover plan.
• Run benchmarks to analyze throughput, latency, and cost-per-token for business cases.
• Scope and execute POCs with clear technical success criteria; maintain accountability.
• Write technical sections of proposals, RFPs, and security questionnaires; maintain a reusable answer library.

Skills

Python

Pre-sales engineering

LLM inference knowledge

Containers & Kubernetes

Open-model ecosystem familiarity

Strong written communication

Tools

Hugging Face

TensorRT-LLM

Job description

Featherless AI is hiring its first Sales Engineer to pair with the founding AE in North America. You own the technical win from first call through production rollout, building the demo environment, POC playbooks, benchmarks, security answers, and migration guides that scale the GTM team.

As the first SE, you will work directly with developers, ML engineers, and CTOs to prove open-models are faster, cheaper, and more reliable than incumbent solutions. Remote-friendly across US & Canada.