Solutions PreSales Engineer

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Pleasanton, CA
130K-150K
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Cloud • Software
The Role
As a Presales Engineer, you will assist sales teams, deliver product demos, respond to RFPs, and ensure client satisfaction while achieving sales targets.
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Who We Are & Why Join Us

Avathon is revolutionizing industrial AI with a powerful platform that enables businesses to harness the full potential of their operational data. Our technology seamlessly integrates and contextualizes siloed datasets, providing a 360-degree operational view that enhances decision-making and efficiency. With advanced capabilities like digital twins, natural language processing, normal behavior modeling, and machine vision, we create real-time virtual replicas of physical assets, enabling predictive maintenance, performance simulation, and operational optimization. Our AI-driven models empower companies with scalable solutions for anomaly detection, performance forecasting, and asset lifetime extension—all tailored to the complexities of industrial environments. 

Cutting-Edge AI Innovation – Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future.
High-Growth Environment – Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm.
Meaningful Impact – Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.
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As a PreSales Solutions Engineer you are responsible for discovering customer requirements, validation of customer data, and providing product expertise in the form of software demonstrations and asking probing questions to understand customer expectations and the appropriate scope for implementation. You will be a deep technical expert on how SparkCognition software delivers technical value and how it is configured and deployed into customer environments. You will use your technical expertise and hands-on analytic capabilities to understand, communicate, and validate the customer’s data and environment against the solution requirements.You will work closely with channel partners and sales teams to:

  • Partnering with Product and Services teams to stay up-to-date on capabilities, roadmap, and technical delivery
  • Clearly messaging the technical value and limitations of our products in presentations and conversations
  • Developing and delivering technical content to share across the broader team to help Marketing and Sales message the solution capabilities to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Gaining customer trust by asking pointed questions and being an excellent listener during calls and meetings
  • Exceeding customer expectations with regards to responsiveness, professionalism, and honesty
  • Validating and mapping customer technical requirements to SparkCognition product capabilities while taking into account the available data, IT infrastructure, and security requirements.
  • Consolidating and communicating customer feedback to product and marketing teams
  • Providing web and in-person product and data presentations and demonstrations of SparkCognition’s software to potential customers and partners
  • Building and delivering demos using customer data to tell meaningful stories while documenting your work for both internal and external collateral 
  • Keeping excellent documentation of all customer interactions
  • Scoping and writing customer proposals and responding to RFPs
  • Scoping and delivering Proof of Concept engagements using customer provided data

You will have:

  • At least 5 years experience as a software engineer, technical sales, technical consulting, data analyst, data scientist, technical program manager, or similar work experience
  • At least 3 years demonstrated experience with Python and familiar with Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas, and other libraries to visualize and model data using cloud-based VMs (Google, Azure, AWS)
  • At least 3 years experience in customer facing roles 
  • A certificate or demonstrated experience in Data Science or Machine Learning
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent listening and documentation skills
  • Demonstrated leadership in coordinating and driving cross-functional efforts 
  • Flexibility to travel 20%-30% or as business needs require

It would be great if you had:

  • Experience working in industrial environments with direct exposure to industrial safety, operations, and equipment maintenance programs
  • Experience with computer vision or vision-based AI modeling
  • Experience or a desire to participate in public speaking and promoting thought leadership in the domain of applied AI
  • Experience configuring and deploying cloud services for compute and data storage

Salary $200k OTE. Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
GCP
Jupyter Notebooks
Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Word
Pandas
Python
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The Company
Austin, , Texas
305 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Avathon, a leader in Industrial AI, extends the life of critical infrastructure while advancing the journey toward full autonomy. Avathon’s Industrial AI platform empowers commercial and government customers with scalable, secure, and value-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and resilience across heavy industry.

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