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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solutions Engineer Lead - **Company:** Dust - **Location:** Paris, France (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €10,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Integration Architecture, Bash Shell, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Linux, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Open Source Technology, Single Sign-On, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Datadog, Enterprise Application Integration, Scripting, Postman, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Model Validation, Stripe, Production Code, Restful APIs, Webhooks - **Published:** August 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://fr.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8eb291df16c75cd6 ## About the Role * You have at least three years of experience leading technical teams across pre-sales, post-sales, solutions consulting, technical services, or related functions. * You have experience managing or working across multiple Solutions Engineering functions, such as pre-sales, post-sales, implementation, or partnerships. * You combine strategic thinking with a hands-on, low-ego leadership style. * You have deep technical expertise across APIs, integrations, data connectors, and enterprise architecture. * You can write production code in Python, TypeScript, Bash, or a similar language, and have shipped real projects. * You understand enterprise integration patterns, security, and compliance requirements, including REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, SSO, MCP, SOC 2, and GDPR. * You can explain the differences between agentic systems, workflow automation, and copilot products to technical and non-technical audiences. Ideal, But Not Required: * You have built or led a Solutions Engineering organization through an early stage of growth. * You have experience hiring and developing Solutions Engineers across multiple regions or functions. * You have worked with AI, LLM, or agent platforms and understand concepts such as retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and model evaluation. * You have used AI-assisted development tools such as Lovable, Cursor, or v0 to build demos, prototypes, or POC environments. * You have experience building technical partner programs, co-selling motions, or partner enablement. * You have influenced product strategy through structured customer and market feedback. ## Description With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world's fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done. With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast. We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026. Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50., As a Solutions Engineering Lead at Dust, you will build and lead the function that connects our technical teams with customers, partners, and the broader go-to-market organization. You will shape how we support technical evaluations, customer implementations, and partner engagements, while remaining hands-on with our most complex opportunities. You will work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships to build repeatable playbooks, develop the Solutions Engineering team, and show how Dust's AI operating system can transform the way companies work., * Product-First: Unlike others focused on building foundation models, we're laser-focused on creating delightful product experiences with existing LLMs. * Small, High-Impact Team: Join a team of alumni from Stripe, Square, OpenAI, and other top tech companies. We're intentionally keeping our team small and mighty - every individual has massive scope and impact. * Transparency & Collaboration: Our repository is open source, and we leverage serendipity between team members. We believe the best ideas emerge when the team shares information and insights openly. * Proactive Problem-Solving: If you see something broken, fix it-without waiting for permission. We don't wait for solutions - we create them. * Ship to Learn: We move fast and learn from real user feedback. * Intellectual Humility: We value strong convictions balanced with open-mindedness. Team members confidently advocate for their ideas while remaining receptive to new perspectives and evidence that might change their minds. If new data emerges, we adapt quickly., * Lead the Solutions Engineering teams across three functions: pre-sales, post-sales, and partnerships. * Define the team structure, roles, career paths, operating standards, and success metrics for each function. * Recruit, hire, and onboard 4-6 Solutions Engineers across the three functions during your first year. * Build repeatable playbooks for technical discovery, pilots, onboarding, implementation, enablement, expansion, and partner co-selling. * Establish shared standards for technical capability, Dust platform expertise, demo craft, and customer communication. * Coach and develop the team through regular feedback, performance reviews, technical enablement, and leadership development. * Set and track performance metrics, including POC conversion, time to value, and partner-sourced pipeline. Stay hands-on with technical work * Maintain deep expertise in Dust's API, data connectors, agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and integration architecture. * Work directly with customer and partner engineering teams to validate integrations using APIs, Postman, and custom scripts. * Build reusable technical content, including reference architectures, security documentation, integration guides, and enablement materials. * Help customers and partners understand how Dust agents differ from deterministic workflow automation and copilot products. * Continue contributing to the most important and technically complex enterprise engagements. Raise the technical bar across Dust * Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships to shape technical strategy. * Turn customer and partner feedback into clear product and roadmap input. * Coach the team to use Dust every day and model AI-native ways of working. * Help establish Dust's technical positioning across enterprise security, integrations, agent architecture, and workflow automation., * We offer substantial support for relocation, including a stipend up to €10k, finding an apartment in Paris, and supporting you with all residence and work permit-related procedures * Significant equity package in a Sequoia-backed startup * Health insurance for you and your dependents * New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc. * Regular team events and offsites ## Related Videos - [The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator? - Patrick Schnell](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1825-the-software-engineer-2030-from-coder-to-ai-orchestrator-patrick-schnell) - [Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100362-navigating-growth-scaling-challenges-and-office-expansions-with-david-singleton-cto-at-stripe) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Your next 10x engineer isn't in your city. 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