# AI Sales Engineer

Hiring organization: [Vectara](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/vectara)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/dae2c2e9-c013-4f9b-b6c5-f4eb43306ccb

Listed on Vectara's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: US West Coast (Bay Area strongly preferred)

## Summary

Vectara seeks an experienced sales engineer to serve as the technical bridge between their AI agent platform and enterprise customers, guiding them from evaluation through production deployment. This role suits someone who combines deep technical credibility in AI/ML systems with the interpersonal skills to influence customer strategy and help shape product direction.

_Our summary, not Vectara's wording._

## Skills named

Java, Kubernetes, Python, REST APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation

## Required

- 5+ years sales engineering in AI, ML, search, analytics, or data engineering
- 2+ years professional services or development experience in large enterprises
- Experience with agentic AI development including context layers, agent harness, skills, tools, and guardrails
- Development experience with Python and/or Java
- Experience building applications that consume REST services
- Understanding of cloud platform architecture including SaaS, VPC deployments, multi-tenancy, and automation
- Understanding of on-premises architecture including hardware, compute, virtualization (especially Kubernetes), and networking
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to explain complex technology concepts clearly
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Available to travel up to 20% of the time
- Based in US West (Bay Area preferred)

## Nice to have

- Master's degree
- Experience selling to AI, Data, or IT organizations in large enterprises

Apply on Vectara's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vectara/jobs/5420538008