Founding Sales Engineer

About Featherless

is building the world's most reliable open-model inference platform — a serverless foundation for deploying and scaling AI without infrastructure overhead.

Backed by AMD, Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0 Residency, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures, we're a well-funded team of researchers and engineers on a mission to democratize AI through performance and accessibility.

Our cloud provides instant access to 40,000+ open-source AI models and the research innovations powering next-generation efficiency, reliability, and model optimization.

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Build and close a pipeline of scale-up and high-growth startup accounts

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Own deals from first contact through signed contract — discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation, close

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Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CTOs, ML leads, and infrastructure decision-makers

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Work with the CRO to refine acquisition and expansion playbooks

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Partner with BDR and DevRel on pipeline generation

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Maintain CRM rigor and deliver accurate forecasting and pipeline reporting

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Represent Featherless at industry events and conferences to generate and advance deals

Core Responsibilities

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Run full-cycle sales across mid-market and enterprise segments

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Lead high-quality discovery and technical demo calls tailored to each buyer's stack and use case

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Develop custom proposals and business cases that connect model inference needs to Featherless capabilities

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Negotiate and close complex, multi-stakeholder deals

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Expand revenue within existing accounts — identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities

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Use AI tools extensively to automate research, outreach personalization, and workflow efficiency

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Maintain clean CRM hygiene in HubSpot — all activity logged, pipeline stages accurate

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Collaborate with product and engineering to share feedback from the field

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Mentor BDRs and help define what great pipeline looks like

What You Bring

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3–6 years in a closing role in Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps, or AI/developer tooling

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Proven track record closing deals with technical buyers (developers, ML engineers, CTOs)

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Comfortable navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles

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Strong written and verbal communication — concise, credible, technically literate

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Entrepreneurial and self-driven — you build your own process and don't wait for a playbook

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Disciplined forecaster with clean CRM habits and a data-driven approach to pipeline management

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Familiar with HubSpot, Clay, Claude/ChatGPT or equivalent tools

Why Featherless

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Build out the AE function at a company growing in one of the fastest-moving spaces in AI

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Work directly with the CRO — your wins shape the company's trajectory

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Be part of a small, high-performing team making open weight AI accessible to everyone

- Competitive base + commission

Compensation Range: $150K - $190K

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