Sales Engineer

Nexus Cognitive Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative team culture

Leadership investment in learning

Challenging work environment

Job summary

Nexus Cognitive Technologies is seeking a Sales Engineer to shape product strategy and engage directly with customers for modern data architecture solutions. This role involves working closely with Sales and Customer Success teams to define client-specific solutions and oversee customer onboarding.

The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience as a Solution Architect and Sales Engineer, with strong knowledge of open-source and proprietary data technologies across major cloud platforms. The company promotes a collaborative culture and values continuous learning and innovation.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Solution Architect and 3 years as a Sales Engineer.
• Proven track record in technology sales processes.
• Deep knowledge of modern data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Articulate technical capabilities and demonstrate them.
• Partner with the sales team to generate leads.
• Provide general technical support to clients.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Sales Engineering

Open-source data technologies

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Data pipeline and infrastructure

Programming languages (Python, Java, SQL)

Job description

Sales Engineer

We are seeking to hire a Sales Engineer. This role will shape the future of our organization, influencing product strategy and engaging directly with customers in defining and implementing modern data architecture solutions.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with Sales and Customer Success teams supporting new and existing customer pursuits to articulate NX1 capabilities/differentiators, define solution options/benefits, and identify modernization opportunities for client‑specific workloads
• Propose solution architecture and articulate benefits of NX1 for complex data‑driven workloads
• Oversee initial customer onboarding ensuring automation, repeatability, and standardization across customer base
• Act as a key product stakeholder contributing to the product roadmap, prioritization, and architecture definition
• Work closely with NX1 Product and Architecture team to define, design, and implement new Control Plane product features and entitlements
• Contribute to NX1 and industry thought leadership and marketing content
• Cultivate a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Provide technical guidance and support to internal stakeholders on data analytics tools and best practices
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies in data analytics and open‑source tools
• Develop standards, patterns, best practices, and formal training (boot camps) for internal engineers and client‑facing delivery teams

Who you are

• A minimum of 8 years of experience as a Solution Architect and 3 years as a Sales Engineer working with enterprise customers
• Proven track record supporting the technology sales processes with the ability to articulate business benefits to non‑technical stakeholders
• Deep knowledge of open‑source and proprietary modern data technologies, including Iceberg, Spark, Nifi, Jupyter Notebooks, Cloudera, Databricks, Kubeflow, MLFlow, Kafka, Debezium, etc.
• Experience designing/building solutions across major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) using Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD principles
• Proven experience architecting data pipelines and data infrastructure to support AI and ML at scale
• Hands‑on experience with programming languages, including Python, Java, Scala, Go, SQL, etc.

Responsibilities

• Clearly articulate technical capabilities and give technical demonstrations
• Partner with the sales team to generate leads
• Find and maintain prospective clients
• Provide general technical support to clients

Qualifications

• Ability to discuss highly technical concepts with prospective leads
• Willingness to travel
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect
• Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter
• A leadership team that invests in learning and development
• The opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI innovation