Vectara
AI Sales Engineer
US West Coast (Bay Area strongly preferred) +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- US West Coast (Bay Area strongly preferred)
Palo Alto, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of Sales Engineering experience; 2+ years of Professional Services or internal development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or an equivalent field of study; MS a plus but not required.
About the job
Connects enterprise customers to Vectara’s AI platform through technical sales support, product evaluations, implementation guidance, and ongoing customer partnership.
What you'll do
- Deliver product expertise, demos, proof-of-concepts, and responses to technical and functional RFI/RFP requirements.
- Guide customers through architecture, design, development, evaluations, performance tuning, and production deployment.
- Coordinate with internal teams and customers to share product feedback, plan services projects, and identify opportunities for expanded usage.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of Sales Engineering experience in AI, ML, search, analytics, or data engineering.
- Experience selling technical products to AI, Data, or IT organizations within large enterprises.
- 2+ years of Professional Services or internal development experience designing and developing applications in large enterprises.
- Experience with agentic AI development; Python and/or Java; REST services; and cloud or on-premise architecture.
Nice to have
- MS degree (a plus but not required).
- Bay Area location preferred.
Tools
Python, Java, REST, SaaS, VPC, k8s, GPUs
AI focus
Supports customer adoption of agentic AI applications, including evaluation and performance tuning of retrieval and agentic pipelines.
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