
Senior Sales Engineer – Northeast U.S.
Gray Swan
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $115,000 - $135,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as the technical lead on enterprise sales opportunities, partnering with Account Executives to shape deal strategy and execution.
- Lead technical discovery with customer security, AI, and platform teams to understand architectures, threat models, and operational constraints.
- Define technical win strategies, including solution design, evaluation plans, and success criteria.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior customer stakeholders throughout the buying process.
- Articulate and demonstrate how the Gray Swan platform identifies vulnerabilities in and protects modern AI systems.
- Design deployment architectures for integrating Gray Swan across development, deployment, and runtime environments.
- Advise customers on best practices for AI security, governance, and operationalization.
- Design, build, and maintain compelling demo environments tailored to customer use cases.
- Lead proofs of concept and pilots that clearly demonstrate value and differentiation.
- Address deep technical, architectural, and security objections with confidence and authority.
- Support security reviews, threat modeling sessions, and technical due diligence.
- Communicate complex AI security concepts clearly to engineers, security leaders, and executives.
- Translate technical capabilities into measurable business impact and risk reduction.
- Support RFPs, security questionnaires, and compliance discussions.
- Represent Gray Swan as a technical authority in customer meetings and select industry forums.
- Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering based on real-world customer needs.
- Surface patterns across enterprise buyers to influence roadmap prioritization.
- Contribute to technical sales enablement and internal knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 7–12+ years of experience in sales engineering, solutions engineering, security engineering, technical consulting, or related roles.
- Strong understanding of modern AI/ML systems, including LLM-based applications and agentic architectures.
- Solid grounding in security concepts such as threat modeling, monitoring, detection, and response, with the ability to reason about adversarial systems.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure), APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise platforms, including on-prem deployments.
- Prior experience supporting or selling security, infrastructure, AI, or developer platforms.
- Proven experience engaging with CISOs, security architects, ML engineers, and platform leaders.
- Track record supporting complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals.
Benefits
- 401k with up to 4% matching
- 28 days annual leave (vacation + holidays)
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Catered lunches (Pittsburgh office)
- Flexible work arrangements
- Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates
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Hard Skills & Tools
sales engineeringsolutions engineeringsecurity engineeringtechnical consultingAI securitythreat modelingcloud-native architecturesAPIsdistributed systemsenterprise platforms
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcommunicationadvisory skillsproblem-solvingcustomer engagementinfluencingcollaborationstrategic thinkingpresentation skillsknowledge sharing