Exa Solutions Architect at Exa responsible for leading the technical side of presales from discovery through technical win. Builds demos, runs workshops and proofs of concept, and supports technical evaluations to drive sales.
Responsibilities
Solutions Architects are the technical tip of the spear in Exa's presales motion. From the first call to the technical win, you're the person who shows prospects what Exa can do and proves it works for their use case. You partner with Account Executives on new accounts and new opportunities, and you're measured on technical wins, POC conversion, and pipeline velocity.
You'll run discovery with engineers and executives, build demos that land, design and run workshops and proofs of concept, and make the technical case for Exa against alternatives. When a deal needs specialist depth, you pull in our Forward Deployed Engineers. When a deal closes, you hand the customer off to them with everything they need to get to production fast. This is not a demo-only role. You are an engineer who sells.
Lead the technical side of new opportunities alongside Account Executives, from first call through technical win
Run discovery to understand a prospect's use case, architecture, data needs, and success criteria, and qualify where Exa fits
Build and deliver tailored demos, sample apps, and prototypes that show what Exa can do on the prospect's own problem
Design and run workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, timelines, and evaluation plans, then drive them to a decision
Win technical evaluations by benchmarking Exa on quality, latency, and cost, and making a clear case against alternatives
Handle technical objections and answer security, compliance, and architecture questions
Bring in Forward Deployed Engineers as specialists when a deal needs deeper expertise, and run a clean handoff to them after close
Feed market signal back to Product: what prospects ask for, where we lose, and what would help us win
Build reusable presales assets such as demo environments, reference architectures, and evaluation playbooks
Qualification
Strong communication skillsHigh tolerance for context-switchingYou might excel if youHave worked as a solutions architectHave built with LLMs
Required
Several years of hands-on programming experience. You can build compelling demos, implement POCs end to end, and design and run rigorous evals in head-to-head competitive scenarios
2+ years of hands-on presales or technical sales experience, ideally at an AI-native or developer-first company. You've owned the technical side of deals, run discovery and demos with technical buyers, and helped carry opportunities to close
Strong communication skills: you can adapt your pitch to CTOs, engineers, and PMs alike, and explain complex technology simply
Track record of high performance in demanding environments, whether that's a top CS program, a competitive sport, a startup, or something else entirely
High tolerance for context-switching, ambiguity, and sustained intensity
Willingness to travel as needed for customer meetings and workshops
You might excel if you...
Have worked as a solutions architect, solutions engineer, or sales engineer at a developer-tools, API, or AI company
Have built with LLMs, RAG, or agents and can talk credibly about retrieval and search quality
Have helped close revenue or driven commercial outcomes at a previous company
Thrive in early-stage environments where your job description changes monthly
Love the moment a prospect sees a demo and gets it
