Solutions Engineer
Zoo Corporation
About Us
Zoo is building the next generation of hardware design tools redefining how hardware products are designed, developed, and built. Our platform combines a modern, cloud-native CAD environment with AI-powered engineering workflows, helping teams design, iterate, and manufacture products faster than ever before. We are headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with both a local and remote team. We were founded and incubated by Embedded Ventures in 2021.
About You
We’re looking for curious, innovative, and ambitious self-starters to join our growing team to help us bring our mission to life. We think you’ll thrive on our team if you’re:
- Curious at your core, with an eagerness to learn and do things differently
- Customer-focused, always thinking about ways to improve the user experience
- Able to operate autonomously and work asynchronously, while also being an effective team player
About The Role
We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer to partner with our sales team and prospective customers on how Zoo can best address their use cases and technical requirements. We believe in a world full of modern software tools for hardware design that allow anyone to develop solutions on top of our infrastructure. You will be responsible for proactively pushing deals forward by overcoming technical objections and positioning Zoo solutions that align with customer objectives. You will ensure a successful transition to the post-sale stage of the customer lifecycle, and partner with customer teams and internal teams to drive adoption of new products by existing customers. You will be expected to have significant knowledge of the hardware design ecosystem, software development, and a deep understanding of how customers can best utilize Zoo’s products.
What You’ll Do
- Engage with Zoo customers and guarantee success of their specific use cases built on top of Zoo’s APIs
- Develop a deep understanding of Zoo products and how to position with customers
- Build highly interactive and engaging customer demonstrations in order to educate potential customers and share best practices on integration throughout the sales cycle
- Collect requirements, and provide guidance and best practices to apply Zoo products and technologies to achieve customers' business goals
- Partner with our team to translate prospect feedback into meaningful product insights
- Work closely with sales to jointly close new enterprise customers
- Guide new Zoo enterprise customers, helping them execute impactful proof-of-concept projects with a focus on revealing ROI-driven results
- Assist sales as the technical expert to close deeper commercial production deals after a proof-of-concept concludes
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrated experience in a customer facing engineering role, with a track record of supporting technical sales to large enterprise customers
- Ability to understand customers’ workflows, requirements, and decision processes, then translate those insights into effective technical solutions
- Ability to lead technical evaluations and manage requirements, next steps, and follow-through across multiple accounts
- Comfort working across a range of enterprise customers through technical, security, and compliance requirements, including handling ITAR-controlled data under established procedures
- Knowledge of CAD software
- General engineering acumen with a practical understanding of APIs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Hands-on experience with AI tools such as Codex
- Sound technical judgment and the ability to explain current capabilities, limitations, and potential roadmap solutions without overpromising
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, including the ability to engage executives and explain complex technical concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
The compensation range for this role is provided below which includes salary + commission. The final offer will depend on multiple factors including candidate experience, skills, expertise, and market data. Compensation may vary by geography.
In addition, we offer competitive equity as well as a full benefits package which may vary by geography as well.
Zoo is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Zoo team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals from across the globe. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, Veteran status, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply!
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Solutions Engineer Intern 2027 (USA)
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Solutions Engineer Interns work at the intersection of engineering, data and Pinterest’s advertising and revenue ecosystem. They contribute to scoped technical projects that improve tools, workflows, integrations and support experiences for internal teams, advertisers and partners.
The role offers exposure to real engineering work, cross-functional collaboration and responsible AI-assisted workflows, including applying judgment and verification to AI-supported work. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to see how technology drives customer and business impact. You’ll partner with engineers, data and analytics specialists, product stakeholders and go-to-market teams; learn how ambiguous operational problems become reliable technical solutions; and gain hands-on experience across coding, debugging, data analysis, automation, documentation and system design.
What you’ll do:
- Complete assigned technical projects with attention to quality, incorporating feedback from your mentor, manager and peers
- Execute scoped technical tasks end-to-end that contribute to Pinterest products and infrastructure
- Build, test, debug, and improve code, scripts, automations, internal tools or data workflows using guidance from experienced engineers.
- Investigate technical issues using logs, data, documentation and structured troubleshooting; help identify root causes, validate solutions and communicate findings.
- Participate in scheduled engineering on-call coverage during regular workdays and working hours, with guidance from experienced engineers, to help triage and document issues.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, Operations and Support teams and, where relevant, communicate directly with external partners to understand requirements, clarify technical questions and contribute to practical solutions.
- Help improve reporting, monitoring, documentation, sample code, or support processes so teams can resolve issues and make decisions more efficiently.
- Use approved AI tools to accelerate research, coding, analysis, and documentation while validating outputs, protecting confidential information, and taking ownership of the final work.
What we’re looking for:
- This position requires current enrollment in a school or education program in which the individual is working towards a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, engineering, information systems or a related technical field.
- Obtain Bachelor's in Computer Science or related technical field by June 2028.
- Foundational understanding of programming concepts, debugging and testing, demonstrated through coursework, projects or prior experience.
- Experience writing and debugging code in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
- Clear communication of technical thinking, thoughtful clarifying questions and effective collaboration with teammates.
- Comfort working with structured data in tables or CSV files and using spreadsheets to organize or review data.
- Experience using AI tools to support learning, research or technical problem-solving, with a practice of validating outputs through testing or source review and handling information responsibly.
We offer 2 internship start dates:
- May 17, 2027 - August 6, 2027
- June 14, 2027 - September 3, 2027
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- For this role, some interns will work in a hybrid model (commutable distance to one of our offices, with in-person collaboration approximately 1–2 times per week), and some will work fully remote within approved locations. Specific location and work style (hybrid or remote) will be confirmed during the interview and offer process. Office locations available for this role: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York
- Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only
The minimum and maximum salary for this position is $7,500 - $9,500 monthly.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
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