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Dust

Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales

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4 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$135k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Help build the global Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering team as one of the first US hires.
  • Partner with Sales to articulate Dust’s value to technical and business stakeholders.
  • Lead technical discovery to identify high-value use cases aligned with customer workflows.
  • Deliver tailored, high-impact product demonstrations based on real customer problems.
  • Own the technical evaluation process from discovery to hands-on pilots.
  • Onboard prospects and guide them in deploying real use cases during pilot phases.
  • Build lightweight prototypes or integrations to demonstrate practical applications of Dust.
  • Translate customer needs into actionable feedback for Product & Engineering.
  • Develop deep expertise in Dust’s product and platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • Experience in roles combining technical depth with customer-facing work.
  • Proven success in supporting complex, consultative sales cycles.
  • Strong technical aptitude, including familiarity with APIs and software integration.
  • Experience building customer-facing demos or prototypes.
  • Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts into business value.
  • Experience helping customers adopt complex software platforms.
  • Comfortable in fast-paced, early-stage environments and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Interest or experience with generative AI and prompt engineering.
  • Nice to have: Experience with AI/ML technologies, particularly generative AI and LLMs.
  • Nice to have: Background in productivity tools or workflow automation.
  • Nice to have: Ability to write code (e.g., Python, JavaScript) for demos or prototypes.

Benefits

  • Estimated base salary range between $135,000 to $220,000 a year.
  • Significant equity package at a Sequoia-backed startup.
  • Health insurance for you and your dependents.
  • New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc.
  • Opportunity to travel to the EU multiple times a year.
  • Regular team events and off-sites.

Tech Stack

JavaScriptPython