Solutions Architect, US Remote

Wwshemi; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits (medical, dental, and視

Fertility benefits

Monthly wellness stipend

Job summary

Exa is seeking a remote Solutions Architect in the United States to lead the technical side of new opportunities with Account Executives, from first call through the technical win. You will run discovery, build demos, and design workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, then drive them to a decision.

You will win technical evaluations by benchmarking against competitors, handle security and architecture questions, and coordinate with Forward Deployed Engineers when deeper expertise is

Qualifications

• Hands-on programming experience; able to build demos, end-to-end POCs, rigorous evals.
• 2+ years presales or technical sales in AI-native or developer-first company.
• Strong communication; explain complex tech to varied audiences.
• Track record of high performance in demanding environments.
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings/workshops.
• Experience as a solutions architect or sales engineer in dev-tools, API, or AI company.
• Experience with LLMs, retrieval, or agents and credible discussion of search quality.
• Helped close revenue or drive commercial outcomes in previous roles.
• Thrives in early-stage environments with changing job descriptions.
• Loves when a prospect sees a demo and understands the value.
• Care about organizing the world's knowledge for machines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical side of new opportunities with Account Executives from first call to technical win.
• Run discovery to understand use case, architecture, data needs, and success criteria; qualify fit for Exa.
• Build and deliver tailored demos, sample apps, and prototypes for prospect problems.
• Design and run workshops and POCs with clear success criteria and timelines; push to decision.
• Win technical evaluations by benchmarking Exa on quality, latency, and cost; compare with alternatives.
• Handle technical objections; answer security, compliance, and architecture questions.
• Bring in Forward Deployed Engineers as needed; hand off after close.
• Provide market feedback to Product on prospects, losses, and feature requests.
• Create reusable presales assets like demo environments and reference architectures.

Skills

Programming experience

Presales experience

Communication skills

High performance

Context-switching

Willingness to travel

Solutions architect experience

LLMs/RAG/agents

Job description

This listing's locations Remote - San Francisco, California

Employment Full-time

Workplace Remote

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 a remote opportunity in the United States. 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.