AI Forward Deploy Sales Engineer - CST

About ArangoDB

Arango makes your business data AI-ready, giving agents, apps, and assistants trusted context at scale. Every answer is traceable. Every decision is governed. No more stitching together a vector store, a graph database, a search index, and a governance layer added as an afterthought. Arango’s Contextual Data Platform has it all built in, not bolted on.

Trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, HPE, Zscaler, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, and Articul8, Arango helps enterprises move from AI pilots to reliable production systems faster while lowering infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.

Stop building Frankenstacks. Start building with Arango. Learn more at arango.ai

We believe great innovation happens when curious, driven people collaborate. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and supporting our employees and interns as they learn, grow, and contribute to shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Location: Central Timezone

Only candidates located in the Central Time Zone (U.S.) will be considered for the position. While this is a work-from-home role, some travel to client locations will be required.

You Will:

• Craft and deliver outstanding technical presentations and architecturally sound demonstrations of Arango and its GenAI suite for clients.
• Deliver demonstrations, drive Proof of Concepts/Technology (PoCs/PoTs) with prospects and customers, often in comparison to other (NoSQL) database technologies and other Machine Learning/AI enterprise solutions.
• Utilize existing skillset and acquired Arango knowledge to build functional demos for various use cases that incorporate the core database as well as GenAI capabilities.
• Evangelize Arango’s GenAI suite & core DB to prospects and potentially in 3rd party presentations and panel discussions designed to generate awareness.
• Solve technical problems of our (potential) clients with the best solution.
• Work closely with the Sales team in the US and Europe, participating in client meetings.
• Contributions and feedback on technical whitepapers, conduct seminars, assist with trade shows, and other marketing-related events in this area
• Communicate with and contribute to the worldwide Arango community.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time.

Your Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant experience 
• 5+ years of experience in a technical sales or consulting capacity with enterprises, focusing on AI solutions, databases, data warehouses, big data systems, analytics, and machine learning. 
• Technical understanding of data and AI/ML tooling, workflows, and trends in an enterprise setting
• Experience or  knowledge of vector, NoSQL databases, and/or distributed database systems
• Experience building and integrating LLMs, extra points for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
• Strong Architecture skills - ie, mapping a business to technical requirements and understanding multiple components to build a solution
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Working knowledge of Graph analytics/data science algorithms, ML tasks like Node Classification, Node Similarity, Link Prediction, and related concepts.
• Knowledge of key infrastructure stacks (AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with various operating systems (Linux, Windows), cloud, and data storage
• High-energy, upbeat, tenacious team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
• Others would describe you as a self-starter and a perpetual learner
• Strong understanding of the sales process
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written

Extra points for:

• Experience with Graph databases or frameworks

What Makes Arango Special?

At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.

Working at Arango means:

• Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
• Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
• Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications

If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we’d love to hear from you.