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Partner Solutions Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 200000 - 250000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
7 September 2026 (8 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
5 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors flexible LLM choice and robust APIs Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern scale and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.
At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.
About the Role:
At Glean partners are force multipliers. As a Partner Solutions Engineer you will be a partner-facing technical expert responsible for helping strategic partners across VARs GSIs SIs Cloud Partners and ISVs successfully design deploy scale and operationalize Glean across their customer base. This role is designed for someone comfortable leading hands-on workshops and enablement sessions developing technical solutions and consulting on complex partner-led services. You will work directly with partner solution architects delivery teams product teams and partner managers to help them build the skills assets offerings and confidence required to establish a durable Glean services practice. Rather than focusing on isolated enablements or individual deals you will enable partners to support many customers at scale. From that foundation you will guide partners in delivering post-sales services and production-ready Glean solutions.
You will:
- Own the technical success of partners across onboarding deep technical enablement early production deployments and scaled delivery motions.
- Lead hands-on technical trainings deep dives workshops and co-build sessions for partner engineers architects consultants and delivery teams.
- Help partners create repeatable service offerings implementation packages and reference architectures on top of Glean.
- Develop partner technical maturity over time so their teams can independently architect implement troubleshoot and support Glean in production.
- Identify gaps in partner capability and work with Partner Managers Product Engineering and Solutions teams to close them through programs code content or product changes.
- Act as Gleans technical representative within partner organizations building strong relationships with partner technical leaders and helping them succeed with shared customers.
- Provide technical support and expertise for partner-led services and solutions consulting when complexity is highest especially around agent development custom connectors custom integrations and platform extensibility best practices.
- Co-build reusable demos and workshops for partner-led solutions involving Glean Agents Actions APIs Web SDK / embedded experiences custom connectors and broader extensibility patterns.
- Build prototypes reference implementations samples repos services patterns and reusable content that help partners move from concept to working deployment faster.
- Bring a strong bias toward execution and technical craftsmanship: this role should produce working outcomes not just slideware or strategy recommendations.
- Capture field learnings from partner deployments and translate them into actionable feedback for Product and Engineering teams.
- Codify winning patterns into reusable assets such as implementation guides architecture blueprints code samples workshops and troubleshooting playbooks.
- Help define the next generation of partner competencies and services motions.
- Scale the function by turning bespoke field work into repeatable partner-facing and internal best practices.
About you:
Required
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in a technical role such as: partner engineer forward-deployed engineer solutions architect solutions engineer consulting/professional services or other related technical role.
- Experience building or deploying AI / LLM / agent-based systems in production.
- Experience writing debugging integrating and deploying production software systems using APIs SDKs auth patterns and cloud services.
- Strong engineering fundamentals plus hands-on coding experience in Python and at least one of TypeScript / JavaScript / Java.
- Understanding of cloud platforms with practical experience on at least one major provider (GCP AWS or Azure).
- Proven ability to lead technical workshops deep dives or hands-on enablement that results in durable partner capability.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences from engineering teams to executives.
- High tolerance for ambiguity fast-moving environments and broad context-switching across technical and non-technical problems.
- Willingness to travel 25% - 50%.
Preferred
- 8 years in a technical role.
- Experience working with VARs GSIs SIs Cloud Partners ISVs or partner delivery organizations.
- Experience with custom data source connectors indexing pipelines embedded experiences enterprise search / retrieval knowledge systems or workflow automation.
- Experience creating reusable technical assets such as tutorials guides workshops code labs reference architectures and implementation playbooks.
- Experience shaping roadmap or packaging decisions from partner or customer deployment feedback.
- Prior experience in a startup or high-growth environment where youve shaped new partner motions integrations or GTM plays.
Success in this role
- Partners can independently deliver production-grade Glean services and solutions in addition to technical demos and pre-sales support.
- Partners develop a visible Glean technical practice with trained engineers repeatable offerings reference architectures and delivery confidence.
- There is a growing catalog of reusable accelerators code artifacts workshops solution packages and implementation guides that make partner-led delivery faster and more consistent.
- Partner-led deployments see faster time to value because hard technical blockers are solved in pre-sales or early post-sales and with more rigor.
- Gleans Product and Engineering teams receive high-signal feedback from real partner deployments that improve platform readiness and capability.
Location:
This role is hybrid based out of San Francisco CA with 3 days per week in office with 25-50% travel for partner-facing work.
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $200000 - $250000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
Were committed to building and sustaining a diverse inclusive workplace. We strive to attract and retain people with a wide range of backgrounds experiences and perspectives and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.
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AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean AI fluency is core to how we work and were committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process youll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about design and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools platforms or workflows you use today prior Glean experience isnt required.
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