Remote Principal Field Engineer & Demo Architect

Exa; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare benefits

Fertility benefits

Monthly wellness stipend

Sponsorship for international talent

Job summary

Exa is hiring a Principal Field Engineer to work across the whole business—from presales to post-sales. You will build demos, run workshops, and create on-demand training the team and customers rely on to understand Exa.

This remote US-based role requires traveling to conferences and customer sites, and you will become the go-to expert on Exa’s products, search quality, and use cases, collaborating with sales and marketing to drive impact.

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on programming experience.
• 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role (solutions architect, sales engineer, developer advocate or similar).
• A track record of teaching and presenting to technical audiences: talks, workshops, webinars, video tutorials or community events.
• Strong communication skills: explain to engineers and executives alike.
• Self-directed: set your own priorities without quota guidance.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% including international travel.

Responsibilities

• Build the demos the whole team uses: flagship demos, sample apps, cookbooks and reference architectures.
• Design and deliver workshops, hands-on labs and technical webinars for prospects and customers.
• Create on-demand training content: video tutorials and self-paced courses.
• Represent Exa at events: talks, 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 new launches into field-ready material for sales.
• Partner with Marketing on technical content and events.
• Bring customer feedback to Product about what to build and improve.

Skills

Hands-on programming

Customer-facing

Teaching/presenting

Communication

Self-directed

Travel willingness

Job description

Exa is hiring a Principal Field Engineer to work across the whole business—from presales to post-sales. You will build demos, run workshops, and create on-demand training the team and customers rely on to understand Exa.

This remote US-based role requires traveling to conferences and customer sites, and you will become the go-to expert on Exa’s products, search quality, and use cases, collaborating with sales and marketing to drive impact.