Instabase · 1 week ago
Sales Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$157K/yr - $175K/yr
3+ years expInstabase is a company focused on democratizing access to AI innovation to solve unstructured data problems for organizations. The Sales Engineer, Applied AI role involves partnering with Account Executives to design AI solutions, create Proofs of Concept, and advise customers on AI best practices.
Business Information SystemsCloud ComputingDeveloper PlatformSoftware
Responsibilities
Partner with Account Executives to uncover high-value customer pains. You will translate these into business requirements then into concrete AI automation designs using our platform
Design and configure compelling Proofs of Concept (POCs). You will leverage our drag-and-drop workflow builders and our collaboration AI toolsets to show customers their own data being processed in real-time
Act as a trusted advisor on 'The Art of the Possible.' You will educate customers on prompt engineering best practices, agentic workflows, and how to govern AI safely, without needing to discuss low-level model weights
Because you are pushing the boundaries of our no-code tools, you will be the primary feedback loop to Product Management, helping us refine the user interface and agent capabilities
Qualification
Required
Hybrid DNA: You have the technical chops of a software engineer and the communication skills of a consultant. You are as comfortable in a Jupyter Notebook as you are in a boardroom
Applied AI Fluency: 3+ years of experience building or deploying AI/ML solutions. You understand the functional application of LLMs. You know how to prompt a model to get the best result (Prompt Engineering) and understand the practicalities of Generative AI, LLMs (GPT, Gemini, Anthropic), and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Technical Storytelling: Proven track record in a customer-facing role (Solutions Consultant, Sales Engineer, or Business Analyst). You excel at simplifying complex AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders
Data Literacy: You are comfortable working with unstructured data (documents, emails, chats) and understand the nuance of extracting structured value from it
Sales Engineering Excellence: Proven track record in a customer-facing technical role (Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Forward Deployed Engineering). You know how to map technical features to business value
Problem Solving: You love unstructured problems. You can look at a messy dataset (invoices, medical records, financial statements) and instantly visualize the AI pipeline needed to structure it
Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience
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Company
Instabase
Instabase is a Unstructured Data Platform that automates document processing and data analysis.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$292.01MKey Investors
Qatar Investment AuthorityTribe CapitalIndex Ventures
2025-01-17Series D· $100M
2023-06-06Series C· $45M
2022-02-11Series C· $15.04M
Leadership Team
Anant Bhardwaj
Founder & CEO
Junie Dinda
CMO
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