# Founding Sales Engineer at Featherless AI

- Company: Featherless AI
- What the company does: Backed by Airbus Ventures.
- Company website: https://featherless.ai
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US & Canada)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/featherlessai/393c15c7-2ba1-4a66-9bd6-77b79ae9a0bb?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/featherless-ai-founding-sales-engineer/

## About the role

We're hiring our first Sales Engineer to pair directly with our founding Account Executive in North America. You are the technical half of a two-person deal team: the AE owns the commercial motion, you own the technical win. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 3–6 years in pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or a forward-deployed / customer-facing engineering role — at a GPU cloud, inference provider, MLOps platform, AI/developer tooling company, or cloud infrastructure vendor
- Genuinely hands-on: you write Python comfortably and build your own demos rather than requesting them
- Working knowledge of modern LLM inference — serving stacks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM or similar), OpenAI-compatible APIs, quantization, LoRA and fine-tune serving, batching and KV cache behavior, and what actually drives tokens/sec and cost
- Practical familiarity with the open-model ecosystem: Hugging Face, the major open weight families, and how teams evaluate one model against another
- Comfortable with containers, Kubernetes, and cloud networking and security fundamentals
- Credible with both audiences in the same meeting — the ML engineer who wants the numbers and the CTO who wants the risk and cost story

Tags: Go-to-market

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/featherless-ai-founding-sales-engineer/