Solutions Architect, NYC

Wwshemi; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 160.000 - 300.000; Jornada completa

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Equity

Descripción de la vacante

Exa is seeking a Solutions Architect for an on-site role in New York City. You will partner with Account Executives to drive the technical win, running discovery, building demos, and delivering tailored prototypes that address the prospect's use case.

You will design workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, benchmark Exa against competitors, and address security, compliance, and architecture questions while coordinating with Forward Deployed Engineers to close deals.

Formación

• Several years of hands-on programming experience.
• 2+ years in presales or technical sales at an AI-native company.
• Strong communication with CTOs, engineers, and PMs.
• Proven track record in fast-paced, high-performance environments.
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings.
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, or AI agents.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the technical side of new opportunities with Account Executives.
• Run discovery to understand a prospect's use case, architecture, data needs, and success criteria.
• Build and deliver tailored demos and prototypes that show what Exa can do on the prospect's own problem.
• Design and run workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, timelines, and evaluation plans, then drive them to a decision.
• Win technical evaluations by benchmarking Exa on quality, latency, and cost, and making a clear case against alternatives.
• Handle technical objections and answer security, compliance, and architecture questions.
• Bring in Forward Deployed Engineers as specialists when a deal needs deeper expertise, and run a clean handoff to them after close.
• Feed market signal back to Product: what prospects ask for, where we lose, and what would help us win.
• Build reusable presales assets such as demo environments, reference architectures, and evaluation playbooks.

Conocimientos

Programming experience

Presales experience

Communication skills

High performance environments

Travel willingness

AI/LLM knowledge

Descripción del empleo

exaailabs On-site - New York, New York, United States Posted 2026-11-04

This listing's locations On-site - New York, New York, United States

Employment Full-time

Workplace On site

Compensation USD 160000–300000 per year • Offers Equity

Department: GTM

About the Role

Solutions Architects are the technical tip of the spear in Exa's presales motion. From the first call to the technical win, you're the person who shows prospects what Exa can do and proves it works for their use case. You partner with Account Executives on new accounts and new opportunities, and you're measured on technical wins, POC conversion, and pipeline velocity.

You'll run discovery with engineers and executives, build demos that land, design and run workshops and proofs of concept, and make the technical case for Exa against alternatives. When a deal needs specialist depth, you pull in our Forward Deployed Engineers. When a deal closes, you hand the customer off to them with everything they need to get to production fast. This is not a demo-only role. You are an engineer who sells.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the technical side of new opportunities alongside Account Executives, from first call through technical win
• Run discovery to understand a prospect's use case, architecture, data needs, and success criteria, and qualify where Exa fits
• Build and deliver tailored demos, sample apps, and prototypes that show what Exa can do on the prospect's own problem
• Design and run workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, timelines, and evaluation plans, then drive them to a decision
• Win technical evaluations by benchmarking Exa on quality, latency, and cost, and making a clear case against alternatives
• Handle technical objections and answer security, compliance, and architecture questions
• Bring in Forward Deployed Engineers as specialists when a deal needs deeper expertise, and run a clean handoff to them after close
• Feed market signal back to Product: what prospects ask for, where we lose, and what would help us win
• Build reusable presales assets such as demo environments, reference architectures, and evaluation playbooks

Requirements

• Several years of hands-on programming experience. You can build compelling demos, implement POCs end to end, and design and run rigorous evals in head-to-head competitive scenarios
• 2+ years of hands-on presales or technical sales experience, ideally at an AI-native or developer-first company. You've owned the technical side of deals, run discovery and demos with technical buyers, and helped carry opportunities to close
• Strong communication skills: you can adapt your pitch to CTOs, engineers, and PMs alike, and explain complex technology simply
• Track record of high performance in demanding environments, whether that's a top CS program, a competitive sport, a startup, or something else entirely
• High tolerance for context-switching, ambiguity, and sustained intensity
• Willingness to travel as needed for customer meetings and workshops
• Have worked as a solutions architect, solutions engineer, or sales engineer at a developer-tools, API, or AI company
• Have built with LLMs, RAG, or agents and can talk credibly about retrieval and search quality
• Have helped close revenue or driven commercial outcomes at a previous company
• Thrive in early-stage environments where your job description changes monthly
• Love the moment a prospect sees a demo and gets it
• Care deeply about the problem of organizing the world's knowledge and making it accessible to machines

This is an in-person opportunity in New York City. We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.