Sales Engineer – AI Security Operations

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Sales Engineer guiding enterprise and MSSP evaluations of Conifers’ AI-powered SOC platform. Leading discovery, demonstrations, proofs of value, integrations, and technical validation.

Responsibilities:

  • Own technical discovery of the customer’s security environment, operational challenges, stakeholders, and decision criteria
  • Partner with Account Executives to build an evaluation plan and maintain technical momentum throughout the sales cycle
  • Deliver tailored demonstrations connecting Conifers’ capabilities to customer workflows and priorities
  • Lead proofs of value with clear scope, measurable success criteria, timelines, and responsibilities
  • Guide integrations and troubleshoot permissions, APIs, data availability, and configuration issues during evaluations
  • Review investigation results with analysts and security leaders, explaining evidence, conclusions, and remaining gaps
  • Turn evaluation findings into a clear technical and business case, address objections, and communicate results to decision-makers
  • Coordinate technical questionnaires and security reviews, bringing in internal specialists when needed
  • Provide customer feedback to Product and Engineering and improve reusable demos, guides, and evaluation materials
  • Maintain trusted technical relationships after the sale with onboarding and support teams

Requirements:

  • Background combining hands-on cybersecurity work with customer-facing technical responsibility, often representing 4 or more years of relevant experience
  • Experience leading customer demonstrations, technical workshops, or proofs of concept, with clear examples of ownership and results
  • Practical understanding of alert triage, investigation, escalation, and incident response
  • Hands-on depth in at least one major SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, or comparable security platform, with ability to learn unfamiliar tools
  • Comfort troubleshooting REST APIs, JSON, authentication, permissions, and data flow
  • Ability to explain technical findings clearly to practitioners, SOC managers, and business stakeholders
  • Good judgment about evidence, uncertainty, and when to involve a specialist
  • Discipline to manage customer commitments, document decisions, and keep multiple evaluations moving
  • Curiosity about AI and practical interest in applying it responsibly to security operations
  • Experience working in an MSSP or MDR environment, moving from security operations, implementation, or technical account management into presales, writing Python/PowerShell/Bash scripts, building security automation/integrations/technical demonstrations, or using and validating AI tools would help

Benefits:

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Diversity-valuing workplace