Solutions Engineer, Pre-sales

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · São Paulo, Brazil · Go To Market

Solutions Engineer role focused on pre-sales for OpenAI's API platform and ChatGPT Enterprise. The role involves partnering with customers to understand their needs, guide their AI strategy, demonstrate the value of OpenAI's solutions, and recommend architectural patterns. It requires strong technical and communication skills, experience with Generative AI/ML solutions, and understanding of IT security principles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver an exceptional pre-sales customer experience for prospects and customers by providing technical expertise, outlining the value proposition, and answering product, API, and LLM-related questions.
  2. Demonstrate how leveraging OpenAI APIs and ChatGPT can meet customers’ business needs and deliver substantial business value. This includes building and presenting demos, scoping use cases, recommending architecture patterns, and providing in-depth technical advisory.
  3. Create and maintain documentation, guides, and FAQs related to common questions and requirements discovered during the pre-sales process.
  4. Develop and nurture strong customer relationships during the evaluation, validation, and purchasing process.
  5. Foster customer advocacy and represent the voice of the customer with internal teams by gathering and relaying customer feedback, identifying themes across customers, and incorporating them into product planning.

Skills

Required

  • technical pre-sales
  • customer relationship management
  • technical expertise
  • product knowledge
  • API knowledge
  • LLM knowledge
  • demonstration skills
  • use case scoping
  • architecture pattern recommendation
  • technical advisory
  • documentation creation
  • IT security principles
  • programming languages (Python, Javascript)
  • Generative AI/traditional ML solutions
  • network/cloud architecture
  • presentation skills
  • communication skills

Nice to have

  • C-level technical and business relationship management
  • complex global organizations experience
  • higher-level security and compliance support

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales or similar role
  • thorough understanding of IT security principles
  • foundational training in programming languages like Python or Javascript
  • delivered prototypes of Generative AI/traditional ML solutions