Solutions Engineer, AP Intelligence

Job Summary

The Associated Press is seeking a Solutions Engineer to join its team responsible for driving growth of the AP Intelligence Partner Ecosystem. This role involves partnership development, commercial solutioning, technical discovery, and customer relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and evaluate new partnership and customer opportunities across data marketplaces, AI infrastructure providers, and enterprise platforms
• Lead technical discovery, solution scoping, and POC engagements alongside product and sales teams
• Evaluate customer environments and advise on integrations directly with AP APIs and across various types of cloud-based data platforms
• Own technical responses in RFPs, security reviews, and due diligence
• Support customer security and compliance reviews in partnership with internal teams
• Develop and nurture strong customer relationships during the evaluation, validation, and purchasing process
• Monitor integration health and usage, surface potential churn and expansion opportunities
• Foster partner and customer advocacy and represent the voice of the customer with internal teams
• Translate technical insights into commercial opportunities for the Revenue team
• Track and report customer health and technical engagement metrics
• Identify whitespace opportunities within the partner ecosystem and propose new commercial structures, use cases, or integrations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Technical Business Development, or hybrid technical/commercial role in B2B enterprise data or SaaS
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS preferred)
• Proficiency in Python (or similar language) for building or integrating with data pipelines, RESTful APIs, JSON schemas
• Strong working knowledge of data pipelines, low-latency data concerns, APIs, metadata management, and cloud ecosystems
• Strong working knowledge and passion for AI technology and concepts including LLMs, RAG, GPTs, MCP/A2A
• Track record organizing, planning, and executing POC projects from technical discovery through build; communicating status, maintaining project momentum, and suggesting pivots when necessary

Qualifications

• Passion for translating ambiguous business challenges into structured technical solutions

Benefits

The anticipated salary range for this position is $125,000 – $143,000, based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and location. The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, including competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, company-paid life insurance, paid vacation and sick days, paid parental leave for any new parent, mental well-being resources, and equal employment opportunities.