Channel Sales Engineer

We are looking for a Channel Sales Engineer to build, implement and manage top standard partner/channel strategy in an outstanding hyper-growth environment. In this role you’ll help our sales team to evangelize the power of Torq by assessing and understanding the technical business needs of our customers and prospects to help them achieve maximum value from our solution. This remote position is open to candidates in the US.

About the Role

Torq is the leader in AI SOC technology, redefining how security operations teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats through autonomous AI-driven automation. We are looking for a Channel Sales Engineer to build, implement, and manage a top-tier SE strategy within our fast-growing channel ecosystem. In this role, you will be the primary technical resource for our Systems Integrator (SI) and Public Sector partner community, enabling them to successfully position, demonstrate, and deploy Torq’s AI SOC platform. You will work closely with our channel sales team and partner organizations to evangelize Torq’s AI-powered capabilities, assess partner technical readiness, and ensure that end customers achieve maximum value from the industry’s most advanced AI-driven security operations solution.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for SI and Public Sector channel partners, providing pre-sales engineering support and enabling partners to independently position and demonstrate Torq’s AI SOC platform as the leading solution in autonomous security operations.
• Develop and deliver partner enablement programs, including technical training, certification support, and go-to-market playbooks tailored to the SI and Public Sector segments, with a focus on communicating Torq’s AI-driven differentiation.
• Lead and support joint technical engagements with partners and their end customers, including discovery sessions, AI SOC architecture reviews, proof-of-concept (POC) designs, and product demonstrations showcasing Torq’s autonomous investigation and response capabilities.
• Partner with channel sales leadership and product groups to drive operational excellence, meet quarterly and annual channel revenue targets, and ensure pipeline accuracy in CRM systems.
• Build and maintain strong technical relationships with key stakeholders at partner organizations, including practice leads, architects, and delivery teams.
• Collaborate with Torq’s product, engineering, and customer success teams to relay partner and customer feedback and influence product roadmap priorities.
• Represent Torq at industry conferences, partner forums, government and public sector events, and SI summits as a subject matter expert and thought leader in AI SOC and autonomous security operations.
• Support partner-led RFP and RFI responses for Public Sector opportunities, including FedRAMP, SLED, and defense/civilian agency accounts.
• Develop reusable technical assets demo environments, AI SOC integration guides, reference architectures to scale partner success and showcase Torq’s AI-powered automation capabilities across the channel ecosystem.
• Promote best practices in channel sales engineering methodology, including proper use of CRM systems and sales stage discipline across the partner base.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or chann