Every engagement here produces two deliverables.
The first is the one the customer sees: a working decision system that changes how they operate.
The second is the one that matters most to us: the pile of things you had to invent because our platform didn’t have them yet. The modelling pattern you hand-rolled. The constraint formulation that should have been a primitive. The three-hour workaround where an API should have existed. You bring those back, you argue for them, and the strongest of them become product.
That second deliverable is why this role exists. If you only ever deliver the first one, we’ve hired a consultant. We’re not hiring consultants.
You’ll operate with unusual autonomy: you decide what’s worth building, when a workaround is acceptable and when it’s technical debt we’ll regret, and when to tell a customer their real problem is not the one they asked about. You’ll be technical enough that when something breaks in a customer environment, you find the root cause yourself rather than filing a ticket and waiting.
What You’ll Do
Own outcomes end to end – discovery, modelling, implementation, performance tuning, production hardening, and the measurement that proves it worked. Not a handoff at each stage. Yours.
Build, not describe – design and ship decision solutions on our modelling, reasoning, and learning stack: ontologies over customer data, rules, graph analytics, optimisation formulations, predictive models
Fill the gaps yourself – when a customer workflow is blocked on something the platform doesn’t do, scope it and build it. Then push the general version upstream: read our source, form a hypothesis before you escalate, open the PR.
Close the loop with Product – every deployment generates a signal. Bring back reproductions, patterns, and specific failure modes (“the only way I could express this was by abusing X in this way”), not vibes. You are one of the loudest inputs into our roadmap.
Run technical discovery that gets to the truth – workshops, demos, and proofs of concept designed to find out whether we can actually solve the problem, not to look impressive.
Leave things better than you found them – document as you go, in the repo, same week. Turn one-off work into reusable reference implementations so the next person starts where you finished. No branch of yours should be diverging for a month.
Refuse shortcuts that compound – no undocumented config drift, no “it works now” without knowing why it broke, no restarting the service before you’ve captured the evidence.
Who You Are
You thrive in ambiguity and move with intent. You’re motivated by deep understanding and meaningful impact.
Owner, not participant. You take full accountability for the outcome, not your slice of it. When something is broken and it’s nobody’s job, it becomes yours.
You build. Your instinct in the face of a hard problem is to open an editor, not a deck. You’d rather show a working prototype on real data than a diagram of one.
High conviction, low ego. You argue hard for what you believe, you’re direct about what’s wrong, and you change your mind quickly when the evidence turns. You challenge ideas without making it personal – people leave arguments with you feeling sharper, not smaller.
Rigorous. You root-cause things. You can explain both why it broke and why your fix works. Surface symptoms don’t satisfy you.
Fast in unfamiliar territory. Dropped into a codebase, a domain, or a data model you’ve never seen, you’re useful within days. “I only do backend” and “that’s not my job” are phrases you don’t use.
High tolerance for friction. Enterprise environments are messy – broken data, VDI access, security reviews, politics. You route around it and keep shipping.
Impact-driven. You want the thing you built to still be running, and still be load-bearing, two years from now.
What This Role Is Not
We’d rather be blunt than waste your time
It is not demo-and-handoff pre-sales. You don’t disappear after the POC; you’re there when it goes to production.
It is not staff augmentation. You own outcomes, not hours or ticket queues.
It is not advisory. We deliver working software, not recommendations.
It is not a support role. You deploy new things; you don’t maintain someone else’s legacy.
Qualifications
5+ years building and shipping production software, at least some of it inside customer or partner environments
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership: you have personally taken something from an ambiguous problem statement to running in production, and you can walk us through the whole arc, including what went wrong
Strong SQL and deep familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift)
Strong programming ability – Python primarily; comfort with declarative or logic-style languages is a real advantage
Comfortable reading unfamiliar source code, interpreting stack traces, and debugging systems you didn’t write
Able to hold your own with both a VP of Supply Chain and a staff data engineer, in the same meeting
Comfortable operating in high-autonomy, high-velocity, low-instruction environments
Preferred Qualifications
Built analytical, decision, or reasoning applications that reached production and stayed there
Experience with optimization, constraint solving, rule engines, graph algorithms, or ML on structured data
Semantic modelling, data pipelines, and governance in real enterprise settings
Track record of upstream contribution – features, tools, or abstractions you built for one customer that became standard for everyone
Prior experience in enterprise technology, AI, or analytics platforms
How We Hire
Our loop is designed to test the job, not trivia. Expect a technical screen; a session where you navigate and extend a system you’ve never seen before; a problem-decomposition session on a realistic customer scenario; and a conversation about ownership with the hiring manager. We’re looking for how you think when you don’t know the answer.
The Solution Engineer position offers a base salary range of $170,000 to $200,000, along with equity and comprehensive benefits. Please note that this range serves as a guideline; actual total compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, skill set, qualifications, and geographic location.
Why RelationalAI
At RelationalAI, you will
Work from anywhere in the world
Earn competitive salary + equity
Enjoy open PTO, flexible schedules, and recharge weeks
Access global benefits, mental-health support, and learning stipends
Join a transparent, inclusive, and globally connected culture that values curiosity, excellence, and impact
Regular team offsites and global events – Building strong connections while working remotely through team offsites and global events that bring everyone together.
A culture of transparency & knowledge-sharing – Open communication through team standups, fireside chats, and open meetings.
Country Hiring Guidelines
RelationalAI hires people from around the world. All of our roles are remote; however, some locations might carry specific eligibility requirements.
Because of this, understanding location & visa support helps us better prepare to onboard our colleagues.
Our People Operations team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruitment process.
How to Apply
If you’re driven by understanding, powered by curiosity, and ready to help shape the next era of enterprise intelligence — we’d love to hear from you.
Join us and help build the reasoning layer for the modern enterprise.
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