Solutions Engineer
We're Hiring: Solution Engineer (Contract)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Duration:
12 MonthsPR: $185/hr on W2Our client, a leading AI company, is looking for engineers-turned-educators to deliver live technical onboarding programs. If you've built software and love teaching it, this one is for you.
About the Role:
You'll be a dedicated instructor for a technical onboarding program, delivering live sessions across multiple learning paths (Architect, Admin, Developer, Associate Architect, with a User path launching later). This is a delivery-focused role: you teach, run labs, and own the classroom experience while curriculum owners own the content.
What You'll Do:
- Deliver live technical sessions, in person and hybrid, across assigned learning paths
- Run hands-on labs and exercises, and support learners through technical issues in the room
- Dry-run sessions with curriculum owners ahead of each cohort and iterate on delivery
- Collect and relay learner feedback and survey signal to program owners
- Support day-of cohort operations alongside the program team
- Travel to cohort sites as scheduled Who We're Looking ForEngineer first, trainer second. We want someone who has actually built software, so the content they deliver feels real to developers.
- Background as a Software Engineer, Architect, Demo Engineer, or similar, who then moved into technical training (or vice versa)
- 2–3+ years of technical curriculum development or delivery
- Comfortable teaching API- and AI-product content to mixed technical audiences
- Strong live facilitation: you can hold a room, handle questions, and adapt pace in real time
- Former collegiate Teaching Assistants who moved into software development are a great fit
- Able to travel regularly for cohort weeks
Nice to Have:
- Experience teaching or enabling GTM/sales-adjacent technical audiences
- Hands-on familiarity with LLM products
- Instructional design background
- A portfolio or videos showing you teaching, presenting, or running a class (strongly preferred) Backgrounds We Love
- AI labs and AI startups (especially Demo Engineers)
- Developer tools and data/infra platforms
- Developer education and coding bootcamp companies
- Tech companies known for strong developer advocacy