Lead technical wins for Featherless.ai across North America, using Python and up-to-date LLM inference expertise with developers, ML engineers, and CTOs. As the first Sales Engineer, you will pair with the founding Account Executive as the technical owner for active opportunities. You will evaluate workloads, design proofs of concept, run benchmarks, and demonstrate open-model inference against incumbent solutions. The role combines customer-facing engineering with building the sales engineering function. Key Responsibilities:

Partner with the founding Account Executive on opportunities Run discovery across models, workloads, latency, throughput, and spend Design POCs and benchmarks against incumbent solutions Lead architecture reviews, live demos, and working code Build reusable demos,



collateral, migration guides, and answer libraries Requirements:

Three to six years in presales engineering or solutions architecture Comfortable writing Python and building technical demonstrations Knowledge of LLM inference, serving stacks, APIs, and quantization Familiarity with Hugging Face and open-model evaluation Experience with containers, Kubernetes, cloud networking, and security fundamentals Bring hands-on Python, LLM inference, and customer-facing engineering skills to build Featherless.ai's technical sales foundation.

📌 Founding AI Sales Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Featherless AI
📍 Toronto