Lightning AI
Machine Learning Sales Engineer(Customer facing)
$170K–$190K
New York, New York, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5–7 years in the listed or related roles.
About the job
Serve as a customer-facing technical partner, helping customers evaluate, deploy, and expand use of the Lightning AI platform while translating their needs into scalable AI/ML solutions and product insights.
What you'll do
- Lead technical discovery, product demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and post-sales engagements.
- Support the sales process by explaining technical solutions and aligning customer, sales, product, and engineering teams.
- Help customers evaluate, deploy, and expand their use of the platform.
What they ask for
- 5–7 years in solutions engineering, sales engineering, field engineering, technical pre-sales, ML infrastructure, or related technical leadership roles.
- Deep understanding of technical selling, enterprise evaluation cycles, POCs, executive alignment, and cross-functional deal execution.
- Ability to build credibility with technical buyers and explain AI, infrastructure, platform, and architecture concepts to senior business stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Partnerships, Marketing, and Revenue Operations.
Nice to have
- Experience in AI or cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, MLOps, data platforms, GPUs, or high-performance compute.
- Hands-on technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, or data systems.
Pay
$170,000 — $190,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
PyTorch Lightning
AI focus
Help customers develop, train, deploy, and scale AI systems using the Lightning AI platform.
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