Forward Deployed Engineer – Software & AI Solutions
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for:
nRouter
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-15
Job specializations:
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Sales
Job Description & How to Apply Below
This is a B2B sales and partnerships role focused on driving adoption of an enterprise LLM gateway platform among AI startups, SaaS vendors, and enterprise platform teams with significant monthly LLM token spend. The position owns the full sales cycle for high-value accounts that need predictable cost ceilings, reliable failovers, and unified compliance. Compensation combines a competitive base salary with uncapped commission tied directly to contract value and platform usage, in a high-growth, remote-first environment.
** Responsibilities- Identify, qualify, and close high-value B2B partnerships with AI startups, scale-ups, and enterprise accounts
- Manage the full sales cycle from discovery through technical evaluation to contract signing and committed-use agreements
- Pitch engineering leaders, CTOs, and Fin Ops teams on list-rate pricing, cost-based routing, and preflight guardrails
- Collaborate with forward-deployed engineers on technical pilots and customer onboarding
- Consistently achieve and exceed quarterly revenue quotas to unlock uncapped commission
- 3+ years of enterprise B2B sales or technical partnership experience in SaaS, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure
- Proven track record of quota attainment under commission-driven incentive structures
- Strong ability to communicate value to both technical buyers (CTOs, Heads of Engineering) and economic buyers (VPs, CFOs)
- Self-driven operator comfortable in high-growth, remote-first environments
- Experience in the AI/ML ecosystem, API gateways, or developer platforms
- An existing network of AI founders, engineering leaders, or enterprise platform architects
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