Sales Engineer - Cheaper Inference

About the role

Keak is seeking a Sales Engineer to champion its Cheaper Inference product, an OpenAI‑compatible API that delivers leading AI models at market‑driven rates below list price. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and sales, helping AI startups, engineering teams, and larger organisations evaluate and adopt the platform.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with engineering leaders, AI teams, founders, and infrastructure buyers.
• Understand customers’ current model usage, architecture, API spend, reliability needs, and data‑handling requirements.
• Demonstrate Cheaper Inference through live walkthroughs and practical API examples.
• Design and support production pilots using real customer workloads.
• Help customers compare cost, latency, quality, compatibility, and reliability against existing providers.
• Guide integrations, including migration from OpenAI‑compatible APIs, model selection, streaming, tool calling, and fallback behavior.
• Respond to technical, security, privacy, and procurement questions in partnership with the product team.
• Troubleshoot evaluation issues and coordinate quickly with engineering.
• Translate customer feedback into product requirements, documentation improvements, and roadmap recommendations.
• Create reusable technical sales materials such as demo environments, integration guides, evaluation plans, and architecture diagrams.
• Contribute to building a repeatable sales process as the product and team scale.

Required profile

• Experience in sales engineering, solutions engineering, developer relations, technical consulting, or a similar customer‑facing engineering role.
• Strong understanding of APIs, HTTP, authentication, SDKs, and modern cloud architectures.
• Hands‑on experience integrating or operating LLM APIs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open‑model platforms.
• Ability to write and debug practical examples in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Confidence discussing inference economics, token usage, latency, rate limits, reliability, and production trade‑offs.
• Excellent communication skills for both highly technical stakeholders and business decision‑makers.

Required skills

• Python
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• RESTful APIs
• HTTP protocol
• Authentication mechanisms
• SDK development
• Modern cloud architecture concepts
• LLM API integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)