Sales Engineer

Gusto; Arizona; Ibrido; USD 88.000 - 181.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Symmetry is seeking a highly capable, customer-facing engineer who can own technical discovery from scope to live deployment. You will work across engineering, product, and client teams to build and embed multi-agent solutions that meet regulatory requirements and deliver measurable business impact.

You will qualify opportunities, prototype when needed, and craft a compelling business case showing hours saved and risk reduced.

Competenze

• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, AI Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Solutions Architect).
• Proven track record shipping production systems in ambiguous, client-facing environments.
• Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven systems, auth patterns, data modeling, idempotency, and failure modes.
• Ability to scope technical solutions from ambiguous opportunities and build business justifications for subscriptions.
• Strong ability to present to and influence engineers and executives.

Mansioni

• Scope and qualify technical opportunities; provide early feasibility read.
• Define requirements so Sales, Product, and Engineering align.
• Build working proofs-of-concept when needed to show feasibility.
• Translate deployments into a business case justifying the subscription.
• Embed with clients and write production code; ensure compliance decisions run in production.
• Diagnose data issues, jurisdiction mapping, and tax ID reconciliation.
• Bridge gaps between technical teams and business stakeholders as requirements evolve.
• Deliver builds and runbooks for Client Success to operate independently.
• Feed signals from sales and build motions back into product and GTM strategies.
• Create implementation playbooks with patterns and deployment docs.

Conoscenze

Technical leadership

REST APIs

Agentic workflows

Discovery & scoping

Stakeholder communication

Strumenti

Production systems

Descrizione del lavoro

About the company

At the company, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.

All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build the company should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at the company. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process.

About the Role

This is a highly customer-facing role at the intersection of engineering, solution architecture, agentic AI, and customer delivery. You will work directly with stakeholders and own the technical discovery for our ongoing opportunities end to end. Once a deal is qualified, you scope, build, embed with the client, and build it yourself, code that holds up against real tax and jurisdiction data, not a prototype you clean up later. What you ship only counts once the client is paying for it, it's live, and it's measurably cutting the manual work they used to do by hand, hours saved, tickets deflected, risk reduced. You should be comfortable speaking with both technical and executive stakeholders, moving quickly from problem discovery to prototype, and turning complex workflows into production-ready agents and multi-agent systems.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day

• Scope & Qualify: Give Sales a technical feasibility read early on ambiguous Enterprise opportunities, then own scoping the compliance challenge once the deal is sales-qualified.

• Define the Problem: Own requirements gathering on complex, ambiguous opportunities, scoping the problem clearly enough for Sales, Product, and Engineering to align on it.

• Prove It First: Build a working proof-of-concept of the proposed agent when a deal needs to see feasibility before committing to the full build, tailored from a hands-on integration engineer to a VP of Payroll Tax.

• Make the Business Case: Translate every deployment into the business case that justifies the subscription: hours saved, risk reduced, compliance simplified.

• Own the Build: Embed with clients and write the code yourself, work that runs their compliance decisions instead of just connecting to them. There's no fixed method yet, you figure out what each engagement needs and build it.

• Clear the Blockers: Diagnose and fix the data issues, jurisdiction mapping, tax ID reconciliation, that stand between a client and production.

• Bridge the Gap: Keep technical teams and business stakeholders aligned as requirements evolve mid-engagement, so scope changes don't blindside either side.

• Own the Handoff: Deliver the build and a runbook Client Success runs solo without the need to loop back the FDE.

• Close the Loop: Feed structured signal from both the sales motion and the build motion back into product and go-to-market strategy, including infrastructure gaps.

• Create Implementation Playbooks: solution patterns, demo flows, and deployment documentation that make future deployments faster.

Here's what we're looking for

• Demonstrated 5+ years of hands-on experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, AI Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or similar.

• Proven track record of shipping production systems in ambiguous, client-facing environments, with demonstrable evidence of:

• REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven systems, auth patterns, data modeling, idempotency, and failure modes, not just happy-path builds

• Building production systems in highly regulated categories, payroll, tax, or compliance fluency deep enough to run a conversation with a client's compliance team without a translator

• Agentic workflows beyond prototypes: MCP or function-calling patterns, evaluation and reliability practices

• Deep technical discovery skills with the ability to navigate a high degree of ambiguity

• Ability to scope a technical solution from an ambiguous opportunity, build the business case that justifies a subscription, and ship a pattern the next engagement can reuse

• Proven ability to present to and influence a range of audiences, from individual engineers to executive sponsors

• Entrepreneurial, passionate about our mission, and deep empathy for the clients whose compliance work you're automating

• Bonus points for experience with a specific HR/payroll platform's integration surface, enterprise procurement or security review processes, or MEDDPICC-style deal frameworks

Who Thrives Here

Builders who can sit with a customer, understand the real problem, quickly build an agentic solution, and present it clearly enough that the customer immediately sees the value.

You’ll thrive here if you are technical, customer-facing, fast-moving, and independent. You prototype and debug rather than only coordinate. You take responsibility for the customer outcome, communicate proactively, flag risks early, and follow through. You are comfortable being the technical adult in the room, whether you’re speaking with a customer’s architect, operations lead, engineering team, or VP of Payroll.

We’re looking for someone low-ego, collaborative, sharp, and highly accountable - someone who can build trust with customers while also building real technical solutions.

Our total cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $88,000-140,000 in Scottsdale, $95,000-150,000 in Denver, and $115,000-181,000 in New York & San Francisco Bay Area. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

At the company, we don't use titles the traditional way, as a signal of rank or hierarchy. Instead, our titles describe two things at once — your craft (what you do, e.g. Engineering, Design) and your scope of ownership (what you're accountable for) — which is why you'll see something like "Head of X" instead of a rank word like "Director" that tells you neither. Because of this, the title on this posting may look different from what you'd expect based on the scope and seniority of the role, and from how similar roles are typically titled elsewhere. If you have questions about how this role compares to your current title or level, your recruiter can help translate.

the company has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, the company's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

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