Vectara
AI Sales Engineer
US West Coast (Bay Area strongly preferred) · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Vectara is looking for an experienced Sales Engineer to join us.
- You will be connecting customers with the magic of our product, aligning our capabilities to the pain points and business opportunities they are attacking.
- You will remain the trusted technical point of contact throughout the customer's journey with our product.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Sales Engineering experience, supporting the GTM motion of companies in one of the following spaces: AI, ML, search, analytics, data engineering
- Experience selling technical products to AI, Data, or IT organizations within large enterprises
- Experience with agentic AI development, spanning the context layer to the agent harness - skills, tools, guardrails, etc.
- Development experience with Python and/or Java
- Ability to communicate complex technology concepts crisply and simply
- 5+ years of Sales Engineering experience, supporting the
- 2+ years of Professional Services or internal development experience, working in large enterprises to design and develop applications
- Experience developing apps that heavily consume REST services
- Understanding of architectural principles for cloud-based platforms, including SaaS, VPC deployments, multi-tenancy, and automation
- Understanding of architectural principles for on premise systems, including hardware, compute (especially GPUs), virtualization (especially k8s), and networking
- Strong communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Compelling storyteller, with experience building product narratives and pitches
- Should be available to travel to visit your accounts up to 20% of the time
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or an equivalent field of study; MS a plus but not required
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or an equivalent field of study
- MS a plus but not required
Compensation
- Salary is just one component of Vectara's employee compensation.
Benefits
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision for employees.
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time and holidays.
Company info
- We are passionate about helping users take advantage of breakthroughs in applied AI to solve problems and get stuff done.
- You will work as an integral part of our Sales and Customer Success motions, and you will work hand-in-hand with our Professional Services team.
- In this way you will positively influence your customers and help them successfully navigate their way through the AI era.
- Assisting customers with architecture, design, and development
- Conducting regular check-in meetings with customers to update them on new features and identify opportunities for expanded usage
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