Jobs at Sand Technologies

Leads the design and expansion of regional infrastructure operations hubs supporting client physical AI deployments. Establishes hub blueprints, support models, SLAs, SLOs, incident processes, security baselines, on-call structures, and operational health reporting. Bootstraps new regional teams, hires and develops leaders, manages cross-country matrix collaboration, supports client security reviews, and partners with Legal, Cyber Security, IT Operations, and Platform teams on compliant, scalable operations.

Validates Sand’s products and market fit in the US private sector by conducting customer discovery, defining target segments, analyzing competition, designing pilots, and developing pricing and commercial cases. The role translates customer evidence into product and go-to-market decisions, identifies product gaps, and recommends whether to continue, adapt, or stop initiatives. It is a hands-on player-manager position requiring close collaboration with engineering, technical leads, clients, and leadership.

Build and maintain production-grade backend and full-stack software for a telecommunications product. Design APIs and reusable modules, establish CI/CD, testing, observability, and AWS deployment practices, integrate AI models and data pipelines, support testing and production operations, and mentor mid-level engineers in distributed cross-functional teams.

Leads production delivery of intelligent, full-stack solutions across data pipelines, APIs, applications, infrastructure, and ML systems. Acts as the primary technical client contact, translates architecture into delivery decisions, manages technical risk, and leads a cross-functional squad of engineers and data scientists. The role combines hands-on engineering with mentoring, code reviews, architecture, product scoping, and client-site implementation in regulated and critical-infrastructure environments.

Lead end-to-end deployment and operation of cloud infrastructure and Symmetri environments for US customers. Provision, configure, monitor, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot cloud, single-tenant, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Manage Kubernetes, networking, IAM, infrastructure as code, resource planning, incident response, runbooks, and root-cause analysis. Represent the company in customer security reviews and help establish US deployment and operations standards and teams.

Lead technical presales for enterprise AI, data analytics, and digital twin solutions in telecommunications and other industries. Build customer relationships, conduct discovery workshops, design solutions, deliver demos, lead proofs of concept, support RFPs and proposals, and guide post-sale optimization. Translate complex technical capabilities into business outcomes for technical and executive stakeholders while collaborating with sales, product, engineering, and delivery teams.

Leads US application engineering across public and private sector engagements, building and scaling high-performing technical teams. Oversees end-to-end delivery of AI and software programs on the Symmetri Platform, ensuring quality, profitability, reusable components, and client value. Partners with Product to shape roadmaps, supports GTM activities and business development, develops senior client relationships, and drives innovation, technical excellence, talent development, and scalable delivery practices.

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customers to identify operational problems, analyze imperfect data, rapidly prototype and deploy AI-powered solutions, and drive adoption. Responsibilities include building pipelines, models, dashboards, optimizers, agents, and operational applications; collaborating with stakeholders; training users; improving platform capabilities; and supporting follow-on customer opportunities. The role requires technical execution, product thinking, client partnership, commercial awareness, and significant travel.

Lead Sand’s government business growth across Africa by building relationships with governments, funders, development partners, and private-sector organizations. Originate and progress opportunities, navigate tenders and donor procurement, shape technology-enabled propositions with product and technical teams, build consortia, and expand successful programs across countries and sectors. The role spans healthcare, telecommunications, energy, water, infrastructure, and digital government, requiring executive presence, commercial judgment, diplomacy, and fluency in AI, data, and digital systems.

Own and operate production Kubernetes platforms across AWS EKS and self-managed bare-metal environments. Design cluster infrastructure, networking, security, storage, GitOps workflows, Helm-based golden paths, CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems. Establish SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post-mortems, capacity planning, and autoscaling practices. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and networking issues, research solutions, and support distributed teams deploying mission-critical healthcare and infrastructure systems.

The Technical Lead will oversee system deployment and integration across various sectors, managing local teams and ensuring reliability of technology systems to improve healthcare and other services.

The Technical Lead will oversee system implementation and integration across various sectors, manage technical teams, and ensure project success while building local capacity.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will build relationships within the Ministry of Health, deploy AI solutions, lead local technical teams, and ensure continuous knowledge transfer and system sustainability.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will embed within Tanzania's Ministry of Health, delivering AI-driven health solutions and building institutional relationships while managing projects and local teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and Lakehouse architectures using big-data and cloud technologies. Lead data modelling, streaming and batch processing, CI/CD and containerized deployments. Ensure data quality, governance, security, and support ML workflows. Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure for a UK utilities client.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work embedded within Malawi's Ministry of Health, delivering technical solutions, managing client relationships, and building local capacity for sustainable health system improvements.

The Forward Deployed Engineer serves as a permanent technical presence within the Ministry of Health in Nigeria, delivering solutions and building relationships to enhance health systems using Sand's AI products.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will work with the DRC Ministry of Health to implement and manage AI-based health systems, ensure solutions meet operational needs, and build local capacity.

Own and operate production Kubernetes platforms across cloud (AWS EKS) and on-prem/bare-metal, implement GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), build self-service tooling (Helm, operators/CRDs), define SLOs and incident response, develop observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure as code, and troubleshoot infrastructure and cluster issues to ensure reliable mission-critical workloads.

Design, build, and scale backend services, microservices, APIs, and secure cloud applications for physical AI solutions. Integrate AI models and data pipelines, manage infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP, implement testing and CI/CD practices, support real-time data systems, and mentor junior engineers. The role also requires front-end development with React and JavaScript, SQL database work, data visualization, production deployments, and frequent client-site travel.