Sales Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote in the United States or Canada; listed locations include Ashburn, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Fairfax, Halifax, Miami, Montreal, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Ottawa, Phoenix, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, Scottsdale, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington.

Compensation: OTE $150,000–$190,000

Company

hirify.global is building an open-model inference platform providing access to more than 40,000 open-source AI models and research-driven inference and model optimization technology.

What you will do

• Partner with the founding Account Executive as the technical owner for North American opportunities.
• Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, live demos, benchmarks, and proofs of concept using customer workloads.
• Design migration paths from closed-model APIs, other inference providers, and self-managed GPUs to open-weight models.
• Analyze throughput, latency, reliability, cost per token, security, and data-handling requirements.
• Build demo environments, notebooks, reference architectures, integration guides, proposal content, and reusable security responses.
• Support onboarding and initial production workloads, represent the company at developer events, and provide structured feedback to product and engineering.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or a customer-facing engineering role in GPU cloud, inference, MLOps, AI tooling, or cloud infrastructure.
• Comfortable writing Python and building hands-on technical demos.
• Working knowledge of LLM inference, including serving stacks such as vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM, OpenAI-compatible APIs, quantization, LoRA, fine-tune serving, batching, and KV cache behavior.
• Practical familiarity with Hugging Face, open-weight model families, and model evaluation.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, cloud networking, and security fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills for working with ML engineers, CTOs, and executive stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with AMD GPUs or ROCm.
• Exposure to enterprise security and compliance reviews.
• Open-source contributions, public technical writing, or experience as the first technical hire on a go-to-market team.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, high-performing team with direct collaboration with the CRO, founders, and founding Account Executive.
• Opportunity to build the sales engineering function and its processes from the ground up.
• Exposure to more than 40,000 open models and in-house inference and optimization research.
• Competitive base salary, variable compensation tied to the team number, and equity.