Tessl
Field Engineer (Presales) - Northeast (Boston/NY)
New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
CI/CDSalesLeadership
About the role
- We're looking for a Field Engineer who lives and breathes the AI space.
- That means running deeply tailored demos, designing solutions that map to how engineering teams actually work, and helping developers and platform teams understand what AI-native software development can really look like.
- You'll engage deeply with the community, and bridge the field back to our product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical relationship in sales cycles - run demos, answer hard questions, and build trust with engineering audiences ranging from individual developers to CTOs
- Code alongside the product team - contribute to product development, build integrations, and prototype solutions that inform the roadmap based on what you see in the field
- Build AI-first GTM tooling - design and ship internal tools that make our go-to-market motion smarter: automated demos, AI-assisted onboarding, technical qualification tooling, and more
- As an early member of the team, you'll help shape how we build, scale and support a company operating at the edge of AI and software development.
Requirements
- Full customer lifecycle ownership - you're as comfortable driving post-sale success as you are closing pre-sale
- Fluency in the AI tooling ecosystem - you know how tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini work and how engineering teams are adopting them day-to-day
- Comfort with ambiguity - field engineering at Tessl doesn't have a defined playbook yet
- Clear technical communicator - you can make complex ideas legible to both skeptical engineers and less-technical stakeholders
- Collaborative by default - you work fluidly across sales, product, and engineering, and you treat what you learn in the field as shared intelligence
- 5+ years of experience in a field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical pre-sales role
Skills
- the package manager for agent skills https://tessl.io/blog/skills-are-software-and-they-need-a-lifecycle-introducing-skills-on-tessl/
Compensation
- We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and skills.
Benefits
- We provide health insurance which extends to partners and dependents, as well as a pension.
- Tessl is a fast-growing Series A startup based in London, founded by Guy Podjarny.
Company info
- In this role, you'll be a power user of our product and a trusted technical partner to our customers.
- Help build field engineering from the ground up - as one of the first field engineers at Tessl, you'll help define how we engage customers technically, shape the playbooks, and establish the systems and processes that scale with the team
- Understand customers' environments - their agent tooling, developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines - and design solutions that map to how their teams actually work
- Guide onboarding and adoption - work with customers post-sale to ensure they're getting real value from the platform, not just licenses
- the patterns you see across customers are signal we need
- you're comfortable shipping integrations, tooling, and prototypes as part of the job, not as a side activity
- you care about customers getting real outcomes, not just signing contracts
- Surface product insights - act as the voice of the field back to engineering and product; the patterns you see across customers are signal we need
- At Tessl, we are building the context layer for AI coding agents, and a platform for AI-native software development.
- We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we're building at Tessl and we value diversity - we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech.
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