Sales Engineer, Chicago

The role

The Sales Engineer will build, implement, and manage SE strategy. You will assess technical business needs of customers and prospects to help them achieve value from the AI SOC platform.

What you will do

• Provide pre-sales technical expertise and sales engineering processes
• Lead the Sales Engineering team in following sales methodology and best practices
• Ensure proper use of CRM system
• Partner with sales leadership and product groups to meet sales targets
• Ensure accuracy and accountability with internal systems and tools
• Provide technical guidance and support to the sales team
• Deliver presentations to customers and prospects
• Promote products and business solutions at conferences, forums, and seminars
• Participate in regional industry events/organizations as a thought leader
• Provide input on product development to product management

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in pre-sales/solutions engineering for a SaaS security product
• Security domain knowledge
• Working fluency with agentic AI: multi-agent systems, reasoning and planning, tool calling, MCP, prompt engineering, and the practical limits of LLMs in security
• Hands-on use of AI tooling to build demo environments, POC assets, integrations, and custom workflows
• Ability to address AI trust and governance in enterprise evaluations
• Familiarity with the AI SOC competitive landscape
• Fluency in the modern SOC operating model
• Deep understanding of pre-sales engineering and sales stage processes
• Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) hands-on working knowledge
• Hands-on with Python, PowerShell, or bash, plus REST APIs, JSON, and webhook-based integrations
• Prior experience selling one or more cybersecurity solutions
• Based in the Metropolitan Chicago area with regular on-site presence

About the company

Torq is a cybersecurity company with an AI SOC platform. It is backed by Series D funding and has experienced 200% employee growth and 300% revenue growth.