AI Sales Engineer
Fortinet · Cybersecurity
Remote (US); offices in Dallas, TX or Houston, TX or Austin, TX
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Sales engineer$200k–$250k OTE
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At a glance
What you'd actually do: Run the technical side of enterprise sales cycles for a data security platform: discovery, live demos and proof-of-value alongside AEs.
Pay
$200k–$250k OTE
$200k-$250k OTE (base + commission)
Where you work
Hybrid: Palo Alto
Selling to
enterprise security teams
How you'd sell
Mostly outbound (cold calls, emails)
Experience asked
7+ years
Your game plan for this job
0 of 5 doneMost people just hit Apply. Do these first and you show up with someone on the inside.
- 1Pick 2–3 people at Nightfall AIWe found 10 current reps: 5 AEs. SDRs reply the most; they were in your shoes recently. See them ↓
- 2Send a short, curious noteAsk about their experience, not for a referral. We write it for you, with the role and what Nightfall AI sells.
- 3Have a 15-minute chatGood questions for this role:
- What does a normal day look like for you?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- The role is mostly outbound. How much is calling vs. email vs. LinkedIn?
- How is the team doing on quota? What separates the people who hit it?
- 4Apply, ideally with a referralIf the chat went well, ask if they'd refer you or point you to the hiring manager. Then apply and let them know so they can flag it.
- 5Prep for the role playSDR interviews almost always end in a mock cold call. Practice with the Nightfall AI cheat sheet and the role-play guide.
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Full job description
About Nightfall:
Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.
Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.
About the role:
As a
Lead Sales Engineer
at Nightfall you will own the technical aspects of our sales process for Enterprise prospects. You will consult with prospects to understand their objectives and technical requirements. You will work alongside Account Executives through all aspects of the sales cycle to demonstrate Nightfall's platform and enable prospects to address their pain points. You will foster ongoing relationships with prospects and partners to ensure long-term growth while maintaining a deep understanding of Nightfall's evolving platform. You’ll identify and articulate how Nightfall can unlock significant value for our customers and transform the technology that powers their DLP and AI security initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Own the technical aspects of sales meetings
Communicate product features and benefits in pre-sales situations to potential customers
Conduct assessments of prospects requirements and define Nightfall solutions to meet their needs
Demonstrate capabilities to prospective customers in live calls
Implement proof-of-value assessments
Provide support and product presentations at industry-specific trade shows acting as the voice of the company
Relay product feedback and feature request to product/engineering/support teams
Qualifications:
7+ years of customer-facing experience as a solutions architect, sales engineer, or partner engineer in cybersecurity or equivalent
Experience in full-stack development and software architecture patterns, able to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other
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