# Sales Engineer

> talentpluto · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-28

**Salary:** USD 130,000–140,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

**Location:** San Francisco, CA

**Work Model:** On-site

**Industry:** AI infrastructure / developer tools

**Compensation:** $130K-$140K base, plus equity

### About the Company

Our partner builds testing and observability infrastructure for conversational AI agents. The company is past $2M in revenue and growing fast, has onboarded more than 150 conversational-AI companies, and works with several Fortune 500 enterprises. The team is about fifteen people, and this role reports directly to the founder.

### The Opportunity

This is a pre-sales forward-deployed engineering seat. You will run sandbox demos, stand up integrations, and prove value quickly for a high volume of prospective customers.

The work is engineering-first and client-facing at the same time. You will build the demo, run the conversation, and translate what a technical buyer cares about into something they can see working.

### Responsibilities

-   Build and run sandbox demos and integrations for prospective customers.
-   Own the technical thread in pre-sales conversations from first call through evaluation.
-   Turn customer requirements into working proofs of value quickly, at volume.
-   Present results and articulate product value to technical and business stakeholders.
-   Feed recurring customer needs back to product and engineering.

### Requirements

-   Software engineering background, ideally at a startup where you shipped end to end.
-   Strong presentation and communication skills; comfortable demoing live to customers.
-   Fluent with AI tooling and able to build fast with it.
-   Comfortable with high-volume, short-cycle customer work.
-   Based in San Francisco and able to work onsite.

## Apply

[Apply at talentpluto](https://apply.workable.com/talentpluto/j/60493A3DDF/apply)

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