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About the Role
As a Associate Engineer (PreSales), you’ll support our sales team with foundational technical assistance—participating in discovery calls, helping shape simple solution approaches, and contributing to demos and proposals that communicate clear product value to clients. This is a fully onsite role.
Responsibilities
- Support sales as a junior technical resource, explaining basic product capabilities and common use cases
- Assist with discovery to capture customer requirements, pain points, and success criteria
- Help design straightforward solution approaches and basic proofs of concept under mentorship
- Contribute to technical presentations and product demonstrations alongside senior engineers
- Draft sections of technical proposals, scoping documents, and POC plans with guidance
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and engineering to move opportunities forward
- Research and document answers to technical questions and objections; escalate when needed
- Maintain and continuously expand basic knowledge of our products and relevant technologies
- Capture customer insights and share with product and enablement teams
- Other duties as assigned
About You
Qualifications & Skills
- 6+ months of relevant experience (internships, co-ops, academic or personal projects welcome)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Basic knowledge of programming and data tools: Python, JavaScript, JSON, React, C#, SQL/NoSQL
- Basic familiarity with AI/ML concepts and tools: RAG, finetuning, LangChain/LangGraph, Hugging Face, vector databases
- Ability to learn quickly and explain technical ideas in simple, business-friendly terms
- Comfortable assisting with demos and presentations; open to coaching and feedback
- Analytical thinking to help gather requirements and outline simple solution options
- Curious, resourceful problem-solver; knows when to ask for help
- Collaborative teammate with clear written and verbal communication
- Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
