17 days ago
Base Salary
$125k - $168k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and prototype AI agent systems and agentic workflows for data governance and complex reasoning tasks.
- Engage enterprise stakeholders to understand data ecosystems and translate requirements into technical roadmaps for Alation’s Knowledge Layer.
- Build BI and ML pipelines that turn cataloged data into actionable insights and demonstrate customer ROI.
- Partner with Deployment Strategists to scope engagements and connect technical delivery to customer value metrics.
- Develop reusable solution patterns, accelerators, internal tooling, and delivery components.
- Share customer patterns, edge cases, and AI use cases with Product and Engineering teams.
- Support competitive analysis and communicate field observations to GTM and Product teams.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior field engineers and customer technical teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Meaningful experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer.
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, AI tooling, orchestration patterns, vector databases, and RAG architectures.
- Experience delivering BI and data pipeline solutions with strong SQL skills.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Understanding of enterprise data governance, metadata management, and distributed systems architecture.
- Ability to move from ambiguous requirements to working prototypes and iterate based on customer feedback.
- Strong communication skills for working with technical and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Remote role, as indicated by the posting’s #LI-Remote designation.
- United States role with a published target base salary range; the role also includes variable compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Alation
Alation builds an enterprise data intelligence platform centered on a data catalog, lineage, and governance to power self-service analytics and AI readiness for large organizations. It sells subscription software and services to enterprises migrating to the cloud and standardizing trusted data for regulatory and operational use. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the privately held company is credited with pioneering the data catalog category and is used across Fortune 100 and global enterprises.