Senior Solutions Engineer

Sanas; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanas is seeking a Solutions Engineer to drive pilots and close enterprise deals for a fast-growing AI company.

You will own the technical side of a portfolio, qualify pilots, coordinate with AEs, security teams, and engineering, and articulate business impact to executives. Travel ~20% and hybrid Boston-based work with 2 days in the office.

Strong written communication and CCaaS experience are essential to craft concise Readouts and win in competitive pilots.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in presales solutions engineering, solutions consulting, or a technical customer-facing role in CCaaS, CX, UC, or contact center software.
• Ability to own the room with senior executives and troubleshoot with IT/Desktop admins.
• Experience running security reviews and RFP responses on your own.
• Clear and concise written communication.
• Willing to travel ~20% to support customers and teams.

Responsibilities

• Set up pilots and qualify the technical and business fit before commitment to a pilot.
• Coordinate with AEs, security, deployment, and engineering to ensure successful pilots and deployments.
• Build and present readouts with metrics like AHT, CSAT, and conversion.
• Handover to Customer Success with a compelling narrative for kickoff.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineers, Deployment Managers, and regional teams across the US, India, and the Philippines.

Skills

Presales experience

Technical communication

Security reviews

Stakeholder management

CCaaS / contact center

Tools

Genesys

Five9

NICE

Amazon Connect

Avaya

Zoom

Teams

Job description

About this position

Sanas is pioneering the future of human communication. Founded by a team of Stanford researchers and entrepreneurs with deep industry experience, Sanas has developed the world's first real-time speech AI platform capable of accent translation, noise cancellation, speech enhancement, cross-language communication, and more.

Sanas makes conversations clearer, more inclusive, and more effective, removing barriers that prevent people from being understood, regardless of accent, background noise, or native language.

Sanas is currently one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley, growing from $16M to $50M ARR in 2025. The company's core business is profitable and is on track to end 2026 with >$77M ARR. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering with a design-minded product engineering culture to build and ship cutting-edge AI models and experiences - entirely in-house.

Sanas is a 130 person team, established in 2020. In this short span, we've successfully secured over $100 million in funding. Our innovation has been supported by the industry's leading investors, including Insight Partners, Google Ventures, Quadrille Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, and other influential investors. Our reputation is further solidified by collaborations with numerous Fortune 100 companies. With Sanas, you're not just adopting a product; you're investing in the future of communication.

If you're looking to have a significant role in roadmapping and driving technical directions, if you're looking to deploy challenging and big ideas without much overhead or slowness, if you're looking to leave your mark on an ambitious, generational mission to change how the worlds thinks about speech + AI, then Sanas is a well-suited place for you.

About the role

Sanas puts real-time speech AI on the desks of contact center agents around the world. Accent translation, language translation, speech enhancement, and speech intelligence, running live on an agent's machine while they talk to a customer.

Almost everything we sell runs through a pilot first. Most of our new business comes through one, and the pilot is where a Solutions Engineer either makes the case or loses it. This role exists to raise the number of pilots that convert.

You will own the technical side of a portfolio of enterprise and BPO deals. That means proving the product works in the customer's actual environment, getting agents to use it, and putting a number on the business impact that a VP of Operations will sign against. You are the person the account leans on when there are application configuration or deployment issues, when the security team sends a 200-line questionnaire, and when the exec readout has to hold up in front of a CFO.

You will join a team of five Solutions Engineers supporting ten Account Executives. Small enough that you own your accounts end to end, big enough that you are not the only person who knows how something works.

The position is based in Boston with an expectation to work in the office two days per week. The role also requires approximately 20% travel to support customers and business needs.

What you'll actually do

Set the pilot up to be winnable

• Work with the AE to qualify the technical and business fit before we commit to a pilot; a well-scoped pilot is the single biggest predictor of whether the deal closes.
• Agree the success criteria and the baseline with the customer up front - which metrics, which agent group, which comparison window - and get it in writing.
• Tie the pilot to something the customer's executives already care about, not to features.
• Carry the security and compliance review - InfoSec questionnaires, OneTrust and similar reviews, data processing architecture, RFP responses.

Run the pilot day to day

• Provision and configure in our portal, get group IDs and licenses right, and keep trial dates accurate.
• Watch usage and telemetry daily. Low adoption kills pilots more often than bad output does, and it is fixable if you catch it in week one instead of week five.
• Triage audio and quality issues with the customer's IT team and our deployment and product teams: latency, mispronunciation, echo, distortion, unsupported CPUs, conflicting audio software on the agent's machine.
• Train supervisors and agents, and keep coming back to the floor supervisors who actually drive adoption.
• Coordinate with the Deployment Manager assigned to the account, and with our engineering teams across the US, India and the Philippines.
• Collect the proof while you still can - agent surveys, call samples, supervisor quotes.

Prove the value and close it

• Build the readout: AHT, FCR, CSAT, QA and compliance scores, sales conversion, transfer and escalation rates. Show a strategic outcome..
• Present to executives

Hand it off and feed it back

• Hand the account to Customer Success so the CSM walks into kickoff already knowing the story.
• Push what you learned back into Product. You see the model, the app, and the hardware fail in the field before anyone else does, and the roadmap moves when SEs bring specifics.

What we're looking for

• 6+ years in presales solutions engineering, solutions consulting, or a technical customer-facing role in CCaaS, CX, UC, or contact center software. Time spent running a contact center tech stack before moving to presales counts for a lot here.
• You can own the room with a VP of Operations or a CIO in the morning and debug a headset config with a desktop admin in the afternoon. Both, not one.
• You can build a measurement plan, spot a baseline that will make us look bad for the wrong reason, and read a result without overclaiming it.
• You have run security reviews and RFP responses on your own.
• You write clearly and quickly. Most of what moves a deal here is a well-written summary in a Slack channel or a one-page readout.
• You are comfortable with no playbook. In a lot of cases you will be the one writing it.
• Willing to travel to customer sites, roughly 20%, and to take the occasional early or late call for teams in APAC, EMEA, and LATAM.

Nice to have

• Audio, speech, or DSP background, or having sold into a contact center audio stack.
• Genesys, Five9, NICE, Amazon Connect, Avaya, Zoom, or Teams voice experience.
• BPO experience, or having supported offshore delivery teams in the Philippines, India, or LATAM.
• Familiarity with APIs and SDK-based integrations, cloud platforms, and BI tools.