# Sales Engineer at Gusto

- Company: Gusto
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.gusto.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid; Scottsdale, AZ - Hybrid
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $88K to $140K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8248374?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-sales-engineer/

## About the role

This is a highly customer-facing role at the intersection of engineering, solution architecture, agentic AI, and customer delivery. You will work directly with stakeholders and own the technical discovery for our ongoing opportunities end to end. Once a deal is qualified, you scope, build, embed with the client, and build it yourself, code that holds up against real tax and jurisdiction data, not a prototype you clean up later. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven systems, auth patterns, data modeling, idempotency, and failure modes, not just happy-path builds
- Building production systems in highly regulated categories, payroll, tax, or compliance fluency deep enough to run a conversation with a client's compliance team without a translator
- Agentic workflows beyond prototypes: MCP or function-calling patterns, evaluation and reliability practices
- Deep technical discovery skills with the ability to navigate a high degree of ambiguity
- Ability to scope a technical solution from an ambiguous opportunity, build the business case that justifies a subscription, and ship a pattern the next engagement can reuse

Tags: Customer Experience

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-sales-engineer/