Snorkelai
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Pre-Sales
New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote). Posted 3 days ago
The role
You will partner with Sales and AI Solution Practice Leaders to lead technical discovery and solution scoping. You will develop tailored demos and pilots to demonstrate GenAI and machine learning techniques for business outcomes.
What you will do
- Partner with Sales and AI Solution Practice Leaders to shape technical strategy and win technical evaluations.
- Lead structured technical discovery engagements to understand business objectives and data landscape.
- Translate discovery findings into GenAI solution architectures.
- Design, build and deliver bespoke demos including evaluation pipelines and RAG systems.
- Author custom proposals, Statements of Work, and RFP/RFI responses.
- Capture reusable patterns from demos to evolve into reference architectures and playbooks.
- Travel up to 25% annually.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in customer-facing technical roles including discovery, scoping, demos, proof-of-value engagements, and RFP responses.
- Hands-on Python experience.
- Familiarity with the modern Gen AI stack including LLM ecosystems, RAG, vector databases, data processing, synthetic dataset curation, evaluation workflows, LLM orchestration and agent authoring tools
- Expertise across the predictive ML stack including classical ML and data processing frameworks.
- Ability to operate in fast-paced environments and rapidly build prototypes.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into testable technical approaches and measurable success criteria.
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills.
Nice to have
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Math/Statistics, or equivalent experience.
- Experience estimating scope and producing technical content for proposals and Statements of Work.
Benefits
- Equity in the form of employee stock options
About the company
Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises.