FirstPrinciples - Solutions Engineer, Partnerships

Remote - Ontario, Canada - Remote; Anywhere2mo ago

Remote NA Solutions Engineer Business Development Outreach Close

Requirements

• Experience in partnerships, business development, solutions engineering, or sales engineering roles • Strong technical fluency; comfortable discussing APIs, data flows, infrastructure, and system integrations • Ability to bridge business and technical conversations, moving seamlessly between high-level strategy and detailed implementation • Background in physics, mathematics, or a related scientific field, with an ability to engage credibly with researchers • Strong negotiation skills, including the ability to work through detailed, line-by-line technical and commercial terms • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments and shaping how partnerships are built from the ground up • Motivated by working on complex, long-term problems at the intersection of science and technology • A background in Physics or another scientific domain • Direct experience with scientific tool stacks and how researchers use their tools • What You’ll Get:

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, and close strategic partnerships across AI labs, infrastructure providers, and research organizations • Lead partnership conversations end-to-end, from initial outreach through negotiation and execution • Own the technical structuring of partnerships, defining what is exchanged (data, compute, tooling) and how it flows between systems • Work closely with engineering and research teams to translate internal needs into clear external partnership requirements • Negotiate integration details at a granular level (e.g., APIs, data schemas, infrastructure constraints, usage terms) • Ensure partnerships are operationalized effectively, moving from agreement to real, working integrations • Build long-term relationships with partners and continuously identify opportunities to deepen collaboration

Benefits

• We’re building systems that require more than just strong internal capabilities; they depend on the right external partnerships across AI labs, infrastructure providers, and research institutions. • This role exists to identify, land, and operationalize those partnerships end-to-end. That means not only driving the business development side, but also getting deep into the technical details of how each partnership actually works; from what data, tooling, or compute is exchanged, to how integrations are structured and maintained. • You’ll operate at the intersection of sales, technical integration, and scientific context, working with both external partners and internal teams to ensure partnerships are not just signed, but actually usable and impactful.