--- title: 'Solutions Engineer at Serval' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/solutions-engineer-serval-san-francisco-gmr6610849ms' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Solutions Engineer at Serval - **Company:** Serval - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/serval/c77d8ff1-2f28-409e-9afc-56317b8e7e41 ## Job description ## Who We Are [Serval](http://serval.com) is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end — replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations. At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don’t just respond to requests — they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering. Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we’re building the universal AI operations layer — a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving. We’re backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others. ## Role Overview This is our founding Solutions Engineer: the first technical seller at Serval and the person who defines what world-class solutions engineering looks like here. You'll own the technical side of the pre-sales cycle for prospective enterprise customers, sitting across the table from sophisticated IT and security buyers who test every claim we make. Your job is to earn their trust, prove the platform, and win the technical decision. Because you're first, you're not inheriting a playbook, you're writing it: partnering directly with our GTM leaders and account executives, shaping how we demo and run technical evaluations, and building the technical foundation the next ten SEs will use. Must be in either New York or San Francisco Office. ## Who You Are - A builder at heart, able to scope what matters, stand up a demo or proof-of-value yourself, and ship it. - Deeply technical and credible, the kind of person who earns the respect of CIOs, Heads of IT, and security leaders in the first meeting. - A trusted advisor by instinct, who listens for the real problem and proves value in the sales cycle rather than pitching features. - Living on the AI frontier, fluent in how agents and LLM-powered systems get deployed and governed inside the enterprise. - Comfortable in ambiguity, owning your work end-to-end, and moving without waiting to be told what to build next. ## What You'll Do - Run the technical sales motion with AEs: discovery, architecture, demos, whiteboard sessions, executive briefings, and the security review that wins technical buy-in. - Go deep on integrations with the prospect's stack, including identity providers (Okta, Entra), ITSM and ticketing, MDM, HRIS, cloud, and the SaaS apps Serval provisions against. - Translate unique technical environments, requirements, and goals into a scoped set of value-based use cases and success criteria for pilot. - Be the credible voice on security and access, fluent in guardrails, approval workflows, least-privilege and just-in-time access, audit logging, and the compliance questions security teams press on. - Execute a clean handoff to Deployment at pilot kickoff, with full technical context, then roll off the account. - Build the foundational SE toolkit from scratch: demo environments, reference architectures, evaluation frameworks, technical FAQs, and competitive positioning. - Act as the bridge between the field and product, capturing the hardest objections and feature gaps and working directly with engineering to close them. ## What You'll Need - 5+ years in solutions engineering, sales engineering, or a comparable pre-sales technical role at a high-growth B2B software or infrastructure company. - A track record of selling technical products to senior IT and security buyers, with hands-on credibility in front of CIOs, Heads of IT, and security leaders. - Genuine technical depth: you can hold your own in an architecture review, debug an integration live, and answer a sharp security question without reaching for a deck. - Working fluency with the modern IT and identity stack, including IdPs and SCIM, ITSM and ticketing, SaaS administration, APIs, and how access is granted and revoked across an org. - Excellent communication and storytelling, translating complex concepts for both engineers and executives. - A builder's instinct and high ownership, energized by being first and motivated to create the systems that scale a team. - Experience with ITSM, IGA, access management, security, or AI automation products is a strong plus. ## What We Offer - Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company. - Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company. - Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun. ## About Serval ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: IT Service Management (ITSM), Enterprise Software, AI-powered Automation - **Target customers**: B2B; IT, Security, HR, and Workplace teams at mid-market and enterprise organizations - **Mission statement**: “Reimagining the employee support experience” by helping everyone get out of the help desk and back to the work they enjoy. ## Products & Services - **Serval Platform (AI-Native ITSM)**: A unified help desk, access management, and automation platform. Includes AI agents (Help Desk Agent, Automation Agent, Insights Agent) that handle requests, provision access, answer knowledge base questions, and surface workflow suggestions. Supports natural-language workflow creation, code-based workflows with no-code UI, and flexible deployment (cloud, hybrid, self-hosted). - **Access Governance & Provisioning**: Manages access requests for any app, resource, or role with customizable policies, approvals, just-in-time provisioning, and automatic deprovisioning via SCIM, API, or AI-generated workflows. - **Asset Management**: Automatically reconciles data from MDM, procurement, IdP, and HRIS into a single source of truth. - **Knowledge Base**: Built-in docs with sync from Notion, Google Drive, Confluence; AI agent surfaces answers instantly. - **Compliance & Security**: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliant; SIEM integration; role-based access control; auditor-friendly logging. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $1 billion (post-money, as of Series B in December 2025) - **Total Funding**: $127 million - Seed (Oct 2025): $5M - Series A (Nov 2025): $47M led by Redpoint - Series B (Dec 2025): $75M led by Sequoia Capital - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Redpoint, and other top-tier investors. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 494.7% year-over-year (from ~10 to 58 employees); 43 active job postings; expanding into UK, Malaysia, Switzerland; high-profile talent from ServiceNow, Verkada, Rippling, Scale AI. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native architecture**: Entire platform built around AI agents, not bolted-on AI. Workflows created via natural language. - **Code-based workflows with no-code simplicity**: Workflows stored as code (Git-friendly) but editable in a UI – appeals to both engineers and non-technical teams. - **Flexible deployment**: Cloud, hybrid, or fully self-hosted – rare for modern SaaS, attractive to regulated enterprises. - **Compliance out of the box**: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, SIEM integration – reduces friction for enterprise sales. - **Two-way sync with existing ticketing systems**: Low migration barrier; can integrate with current tools. ## Strategic Focus - **Product expansion**: Continuing to build out AI agent capabilities, access governance, and workflow automation. - **Go-to-market**: Scaling sales and customer success teams (mid-market and enterprise); building brand as the “AI platform for employee support.” - **Global reach**: Opening presence in Europe and Asia to serve multinational clients. - **Hiring aggressively**: 43 open roles across engineering, sales, marketing, design, and customer success. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “elite team of builders and sellers” with a focus on stunning colleagues; “Work hard. Celebrate often.” - **Remote/hybrid/office**: Headquarters in San Francisco; roles likely hybrid or on-site (many postings indicate location). Some remote-friendly roles may exist. - **Notable perks**: Working on a generational company; fast-growing startup with strong funding; opportunity to define the AI-native ITSM category. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on code-based workflows, Git integration, and AI agent development. Strong technical team with alumni from top companies (ServiceNow, Verkada, Rippling, Scale AI). - **Growth trajectory**: 494.7% headcount growth YoY, $1B valuation, recent Series B – high momentum and opportunity for impact. ## Sources 1. [serval.com](https://www.serval.com/) 2. [serval.com/careers](https://www.serval.com/careers) 3. [linkedin.com/company/getserval](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getserval) 4. [cbinsights.com/company/serval](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/serval) 5. 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