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Founding Sales Engineer

Job in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Listing for: Featherless AI
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-13
Job specializations:
  • Sales
    SaaS Sales, B2B Sales, Technical Sales
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 190000 CAD Yearly CAD 150000.00 190000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

About Featherless

Featherless.ai is building the world's most reliable open-model inference platform — a serverless foundation for deploying and scaling AI without infrastructure overhead.

About Featherless

Featherless.ai is building the world's most reliable open-model inference platform — a serverless foundation for deploying and scaling AI without infrastructure overhead.

Backed by AMD, Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0 Residency, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures, we're a well-funded team of researchers and engineers on a mission to democratize AI through performance and accessibility.

Our cloud provides instant access to 40,000+ open-source AI models and the research innovations powering next-generation efficiency, reliability, and model optimization.

  • Build and close a pipeline of scale-up and high-growth startup accounts
  • Own deals from first contact through signed contract — discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation, close
  • Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CTOs, ML leads, and infrastructure decision-makers
  • Work with the CRO to refine acquisition and expansion playbooks
  • Partner with BDR and Dev Rel on pipeline generation
  • Maintain CRM rigor and deliver accurate forecasting and pipeline reporting
  • Represent Featherless at industry events and conferences to generate and advance deals
Core Responsibilities
  • Run full-cycle sales across mid-market and enterprise segments
  • Lead high-quality discovery and technical demo calls tailored to each buyer's stack and use case
  • Develop custom proposals and business cases that connect model inference needs to Featherless capabilities
  • Negotiate and close complex, multi-stakeholder deals
  • Expand revenue within existing accounts — identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities
  • Use AI tools extensively to automate research, outreach personalization, and workflow efficiency
  • Maintain clean CRM hygiene in Hub Spot — all activity logged, pipeline stages accurate
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to share feedback from the field
  • Mentor BDRs and help define what great pipeline looks like
What You Bring
  • 3–6 years in a closing role in Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps, or AI/developer tooling
  • Proven track record closing deals with technical buyers (developers, ML engineers, CTOs)
  • Comfortable navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles
  • Strong written and verbal communication — concise, credible, technically literate
  • Entrepreneurial and self-driven — you build your own process and don't wait for a playbook
  • Disciplined forecaster with clean CRM habits and a data-driven approach to pipeline management
  • Familiar with Hub Spot, Clay, Claude/ChatGPT or equivalent tools
Why Featherless
  • Build out the AE function at a company growing in one of the fastest-moving spaces in AI
  • Work directly with the CRO — your wins shape the company's trajectory
  • Be part of a small, high-performing team making open weight AI accessible to everyone
  • Competitive base + commission

Compensation Range: $150K - $190K

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