OpenHands

Forward Deployed Engineer, Pre Sales

OpenHands

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $215,000 per year

About the role

  • Partner closely with AE & Executive leadership to support the full enterprise sales cycle—from discovery and demos to proof-of-concept design, technical deep dives, and deployment guidance.
  • Lead compelling technical presentations and product demos tailored to developers, engineering leaders, and technical executives.
  • Architect and deliver successful evaluations and POCs, ensuring customers can validate performance, security, and developer experience
  • Gather customer feedback and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Developer Experience teams to influence roadmap and feature prioritization.
  • Create technical content (sample integrations, reference architectures, demos, tutorials) that help enterprise teams onboard more effectively.
  • Represent customer needs internally and act as a voice of the field to ensure our product evolves with real-world developer workflows.
  • Build strong relationships with engineering leaders, DevOps teams, and platform owners across customer organizations.
  • Participate in industry events, webinars, and developer community initiatives to showcase best practices and product capabilities.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, sales engineering, or similar customer-facing role at a developer-focused SaaS company
  • Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience deploying to cloud environments and running containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes or equivalent)
  • Direct experience working with customers or technical stakeholders
  • Proven ability to make technical topics accessible for non-technical stakeholders and first-time AI users
  • Empathy for users learning AI-powered tools and creativity in helping them succeed
  • Comfort operating autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and developer tooling
  • Familiarity with AI dev tools (OpenHands, Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) a plus
  • Bonus: experience in field engineering, pre-sales, or developer relations
Benefits
  • Fully covered U.S. health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Unmetered PTO + holidays
  • Competitive compensation including equity and variable comp
  • Remote-first with flexible hours
  • Collaborate with world-class engineers, product builders, and AI researchers
  • Growth path toward senior sales engineering, SE management, and other leadership roles
  • A culture built on kindness, candor, autonomy, and learning
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptDockerKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesGit-based workflowsAI dev toolssolutions engineeringpre-sales
Soft Skills
communicationempathycreativitycollaborationrelationship buildingautonomyadaptabilitycustomer-focusedpresentation skillsinfluencing