Field Engineer (Life Sciences)

Quick Facts

• Role: Field Engineer, Life Sciences (remote, United States)

• Focus: Technical discovery, demos, and POCs for life sciences customers

Description

You’ll be the technical face for prospective and strategic life sciences enterprise customers, helping scientific organizations shorten the path from lab to market. You’ll scope solutions, run proofs of concept, and demonstrate the value of agentic coding in real workflows. You’ll partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering as a deal partner rather than a demo resource.

Responsibilities

• Own technical discovery, demos, POCs, and expansion with technical validation in partnership with AEs

• Build trusted relationships across engineering, scientific computing, R&D, and commercial IT

• Go deep in research-heavy and regulated environments (developer workflows, AI tooling, complex setups)

• Connect SpaceXSI capabilities to outcomes that matter: faster R&D cycles and a shorter lab-to-market path

• Deliver technical presentations, whiteboards, and workshops for scientific and commercial audiences

• Act as the internal technical advocate and coordinate clean handoffs to post-sales for successful onboarding

• Stay sharp on SpaceXSI and the competitive landscape to handle technical discussions effectively

Requirements

• Experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Strong communication skills and executive presence; comfortable coding alongside developers and presenting to CTOs and scientific leaders

• Understand SDLC and connect technical detail to business and scientific impact

• Hands-on technical fluency (not full-time engineering): workflows, AI tooling, complex environments

• Deal-partner instinct: co-own technical work with AEs and navigate complex stakeholder maps

• Customer-obsessed; translate technical detail into why it matters for the organization

• Excited by Life Sciences and comfortable learning regulated/research-heavy organizations quickly

• Motivated to put AI in the hands of people accelerating benefits for humanity

Benefits

• Base salary: $164,500 – $224,000 (expected annual range)

• OTE (with incentives): $235,000 – $320,000 (includes target incentive compensation at 100% achievement)

• Equity

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Short- and long-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Various other discounts and perks