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Solutions Engineer

Material DepotSalesHybridFull-timeSan Francisco· posted 2h ago

About the role

Own the technical strategy, execution, and delivery of customer engagements from pre-sales discovery through deployment. You'll partner with Sales to architect AI infrastructure solutions for Frontier labs, startups, and enterprise ML teams, translating customer requirements into production workloads.

What you'll do

- Own customer POCs: scope, success metrics, architecture, timeline, and production handoff

- Deliver technical demonstrations tailored for engineering leaders and executive audiences

- Architect solutions across training, fine-tuning, and inference

- Map technical requirements to business outcomes

- Build deep relationships with customer stakeholders

- Build reusable demos, reference architectures, and playbooks

- Partner with product and engineering to translate customer needs into roadmap priorities

What you'll need

- BS in CS, EE, or related field, or equivalent experience

- 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role: solutions architect, forward deployed engineer, or product management

- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Rust, Go, or Python

- Strong understanding of AI/ML infrastructure: GPUs, distributed training, inference serving

- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Slurm

- Strong understanding of training, fine-tuning, and inference

- Proven ability to run technical evaluations and influence outcomes in complex sales cycles

- Excellent communication skills: can explain infrastructure and model behavior clearly to both technical and executive audiences

- High ownership and comfort with ambiguity, with strong prioritization across multiple deals and customer threads

What we offer

- Top-tier compensation structured to recognize and retain the best talent

- Meaningful equity

- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

- Parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys

- Flexible PTO

- Paid Holidays

- Relocation support