Sales Engineer, SF Bay Area

Torq is hiring a Sales Engineer to support its AI-native autonomous SecOps platform. The role provides pre-sales technical expertise, guides sales strategy and execution, and helps customers understand and implement solutions that meet their needs.

Responsibilities:

• Provide outstanding and effective pre-sales technical expertise and sales engineering processes
• Lead the Sales Engineering team in following sales methodology and best practices, as well as ensuring proper use of CRM system
• Partner with sales leadership and product groups to drive operational excellence and efficiency and meet quarterly and annual sales targets
• Ensure accuracy and accountability with internal systems and tools
• Provide technical guidance and support to the sales team, ensuring that they have the knowledge and tools needed to be successful
• Deliver compelling presentations to customers and prospects to ensure they understand the value of our solution
• Promote products and business solutions at conferences, forums, and seminars
• Participate in regional industry events/organizations as a thought leader
• Collaborate with a variety of internal functional areas to ensure solutions are implemented and supported in-line with client expectations
• Provide input on product development or enhancements to existing products to product management function

Requirements:

• 5+ years in pre-sales/solutions engineering for a SaaS security product — SecOps, SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, or AI SOC
• Security domain knowledge is a must
• Working fluency with agentic AI: multi-agent systems, reasoning and planning, tool calling, MCP, prompt engineering, and the practical limits of LLMs in security
• Hands-on use of AI tooling to build — demo environments, POC assets, integrations, and custom workflows
• Ability to address AI trust and governance in enterprise evaluations: explainability, audit trails, approval gates, blast-radius limits, reversibility, and data handling
• Familiarity with the AI SOC competitive landscape and how architectures differ, from autonomous triage point solutions to AI-augmented SIEM and EDR bundles
• Fluency in the modern SOC operating model: triage, investigation, case management, Tier 1–3 workflows, MTTD/MTTR
• Deep understanding of pre-sales engineering and sales stage processes, including scoped POCs with measurable success criteria
• Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) hands-on working knowledge
• Hands-on with Python, PowerShell, or bash, plus REST APIs, JSON, and webhook-based integrations
• Prior experience selling one or more cybersecurity solutions: SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, Cloud Security, Identity, Email Security
• Outstanding presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences
• Proven self-starter able to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated success with Fortune 1000 companies
• Excellent project management skills and ability to influence technical decision makers and executives