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title: 'Sales Engineer at Simple AI'
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# Sales Engineer at Simple AI

- **Company:** Simple AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/simple-ai/8f9a0530-db8b-46fe-86bb-a1651ac6f87c

## Job description

## About Simple

[Simple AI](http://usesimple.ai/) is building state of the art voice AI agents for enterprise. Our realistic agents help iconic businesses like Doordash, xAI, and Omaha Steaks handle all kinds of phone operations, from customer support to order intake to lead qualifications. We’re growing revenue like crazy and looking for our first Sales Engineer to help prospects understand our platform, run technical evaluations, and accelerate our sales motion. Simple AI raised $14M from world-class investors and operators like Y Combinator, First Harmonic, Massive Tech Ventures, Michael Seibel, Jared Friedman, Alexandr Wang, Matt Van Horn, Suhail Doshi, and Scott Wu.

The Team The founders ([Catheryn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherynli/) and [Zach](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-kamran/)) met while running software teams at YC, where they shipped tons of new products for YC founders, including YC’s co-founder matching site. Cat previously worked at Instagram and Facebook and earned degrees in math and computer science at MIT. Zach previously studied computer science and statistics at U Chicago and led software at PEAK6. We have grown into a strong team of 20+ and are continuing to scale quickly.

## About the Role

As our first Sales Engineer, you'll partner closely with Account Executives to run technical demos, build proof-of-concepts, and answer the hard questions that come up during enterprise sales cycles. You'll be the bridge between our product and our prospects — translating complex voice AI capabilities into clear, compelling solutions tailored to each customer's needs.

## What You'll Do

- Partner with AEs on deals, owning the technical side of the sales process.
- Creating custom demos that showcase Simple's capabilities for specific use cases.
- Build and deliver proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations for prospective customers.
- Handle technical objections and deep-dive into questions around integrations, security, compliance, and architecture.
- Serve as the voice of the customer internally, feeding product insights and feature requests back to engineering.
- Develop technical sales collateral, solution briefs, and reference architectures.
- Support RFP/RFI responses with accurate technical information.

## What You'll Need

- 2–5 years of experience in a Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or pre-sales role at a B2B SaaS company.
- Strong technical foundation — comfortable discussing APIs, integrations, telephony systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Excellent demo and presentation skills; you can make complex products feel simple.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and translate them into business value.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with voice/telephony, conversational AI, or contact center technologies.
- Background in software engineering or a CS degree.
- Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed → Series B).
- Familiarity with enterprise sales cycles involving security reviews, procurement, and multi-stakeholder sign-off.

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary & meaningful equity
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- An office located in SF
- Health, dental & vision insurance
- Free lunch & dinner at the office
- Late night Ubers
- Regular team events & offsites

If you're excited to be the technical expert behind our sales motion and help enterprise customers see the power of voice AI, we'd love to chat. Please note: At this time, Simple AI is unable to provide employment visa sponsorship for this role. We appreciate your interest and understanding.

## About Simple AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Simple AI builds voice AI agents that automate inbound and outbound B2C phone calls for sales, support, and customer engagement.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Catheryn Li (CEO) and Zach Kamran (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Voice AI Agents / Contact Center Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B — consumer brands and businesses of all sizes that handle high volumes of inbound and outbound B2C phone calls (e.g., retail, self-storage, home insurance, debt collection).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To turn every customer conversation into a revenue opportunity by building AI voice agents that perform like a company's best human sales rep.

## Products & Services
- **Simple AI Voice Agent Platform**: A suite of AI-powered voice agents that automate inbound and outbound phone calls for sales, customer support, debt collection, data collection, and customer surveys. The platform ingests a company's full product catalog (SKUs, metadata, pricing) and uses real-time customer data to personalize interactions, place orders, and upsell. It supports multi-language (40+ languages), human handoff, and integrates with existing tech stacks. The system maintains sub-850ms latency for natural conversation flow. [usesimple.ai](https://www.usesimple.ai/)
- **Simple AI Analytics & Insights**: Every call is transcribed and analyzed for trends, summaries, and customer insights. Includes quality monitoring, trend/topic detection, and a queryable data layer. [usesimple.ai](https://www.usesimple.ai/)
- **Multi-Channel Support**: The same AI agent works across voice, SMS, chat (web), and email, maintaining context and personalization across channels. [usesimple.ai](https://www.usesimple.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Raised **$14M** in a Seed round (announced February 10, 2026). [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210526354/en/Simple-AI-Announces-%2414M-from-First-Harmonic-and-Y-Combinator-to-Build-Voice-AI-Agents-That-Sell)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: First Harmonic (lead), Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures, True Ventures, Conviction Embed, HNVR. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210526354/en/Simple-AI-Announces-%2414M-from-First-Harmonic-and-Y-Combinator-to-Build-Voice-AI-Agents-That-Sell)
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $14M seed round in Feb 2026; Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch; claims AI agents outperform trained live reps by 30% on conversion and upsell; team size of 11 (as of YC profile); actively hiring across engineering, sales, and marketing roles. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simple-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Sub-850ms latency**: Full-stack voice AI pipeline (VAD, transcription, inference, TTS) optimized for natural, real-time conversation. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210526354/en/Simple-AI-Announces-%2414M-from-First-Harmonic-and-Y-Combinator-to-Build-Voice-AI-Agents-That-Sell)
- **Deep product knowledge**: Agents ingest the full product catalog (SKUs, pricing, metadata) and customer history, enabling personalized recommendations and upsells that outperform human reps by 30%. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210526354/en/Simple-AI-Announces-%2414M-from-First-Harmonic-and-Y-Combinator-to-Build-Voice-AI-Agents-That-Sell)
- **Enterprise-grade compliance**: SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant. [usesimple.ai](https://www.usesimple.ai/)
- **Multi-channel orchestration**: A single AI agent works across voice, SMS, chat, and email with full context retention. [usesimple.ai](https://www.usesimple.ai/)
- **Founding team from Y Combinator**: Founders previously led software teams at YC, giving them deep insight into startup scaling and AI product development. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simple-ai)

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to invest in the voice agent platform, custom generative AI models, and analytics/insights capabilities. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210526354/en/Simple-AI-Announces-%2414M-from-First-Harmonic-and-Y-Combinator-to-Build-Voice-AI-Agents-That-Sell)
- **Go-to-market**: Scaling sales and marketing to acquire more consumer brands across verticals (retail, insurance, self-storage, etc.).
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering (Founding Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, New Grad, Intern), product design, sales (AE, SDR), and growth marketing. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/simple-ai)

## Why Work Here
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders are Y Combinator alumni (Summer 2024 batch) with deep experience in software and AI. CEO Catheryn Li led the software team at YC for 4 years; CTO Zach Kamran worked on Bookface at YC. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simple-ai)
- **Early-stage impact**: With a team of ~11 and a fresh $14M seed round, new hires will have outsized ownership and influence over product direction and company culture.
- **Cutting-edge AI work**: Building state-of-the-art voice AI with sub-850ms latency, custom generative models, and real-time personalization — a technically challenging and high-impact domain.
- **Culture & perks**: On-site onboarding and dedicated launch team for customers; hands-on partnership approach. Roles are full-time in San Francisco. Open positions include Founding Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, New Grad SWE, Intern, Founding Product Designer, Account Executive, SDR, and Growth Marketing. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/simple-ai)
- **Work policy**: All listed roles are full-time in San Francisco (in-office/hybrid expected).

## Sources
1. [usesimple.ai](https://www.usesimple.ai/)
2. [usesimple.ai/careers](https://www.usesimple.ai/careers)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/simple-ai)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simple-ai)
5. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210526354/en/Simple-AI-Announces-%2414M-from-First-Harmonic-and-Y-Combinator-to-Build-Voice-AI-Agents-That-Sell)

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