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Sales Engineer roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field. Many employers in enterprise software, industrial automation, and hardware actively file LCAs for this title. Use Migrate Mate to filter for verified H-1B visa sponsors hiring Sales Engineers now.
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Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role:
As a Sr. Sales Engineer, you will be the go-to product and technical expert for Alpaca's enterprise partners. You will bridge technical and business conversations: a customer-facing engineer with strong API knowledge, experience supporting enterprise customers, and collaborating effectively with our global team. You will support enterprise partners and expand our base of enterprise partners, acting as the technical bridge between local partners, vendors, and regulators and Alpaca's global engineering team.
What you will do:
- Provide technical support and relationship management for existing enterprise customers, acting as a trusted technical advisor throughout the partner lifecycle.
- Partner with the Sales and Solutions teams on pre-sales technical discussions, solution design, and API consultations, and present compelling product and technical use cases to prospective clients.
- Guide new enterprise customers through API integration, implementation, and onboarding.
- Act as the voice of customers by collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to improve localized experiences; translate complex business and technical requirements into clear specifications for Alpaca's global engineering team.
- Serve as the product and technical subject matter expert, capable of thoroughly understanding and articulating all aspects of the Alpaca platform to diverse audiences and stakeholders.
- Work closely with local compliance and operations teams to understand local and regional product requirements.
- Own technical sales engagement end-to-end: discovery calls, solution validation, RFPs, and security questionnaires that win deals; lead demo strategy and execution.
- Create sales support materials and documentation for new features and products, where needed.
- Coordinate with local regulators, vendors, and partners, and relay those requirements to global product and engineering.
- Help customers successfully adopt Alpaca's platform while maintaining a high standard of technical and customer support; travel as needed.
- Stay updated on internal product development timelines and work closely with the product team to test and roll out new features to partners.
What we look for (Must-Haves):
- Experience supporting enterprise / B2B customers in a technical, sales engineering, or solutions engineering role (typically 5+ years), ideally at API or SaaS-first companies.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, SDKs, and software integration workflows; hands-on experience with APIs, WebSockets, Postman, Grafana, and JSON.
- Able to translate complex technical concepts into simple, understandable terms.
- Self-starter who thrives in a startup environment, manages multiple assignments simultaneously, works independently, and drives projects to completion with close attention to detail.
Who You Might Be (Nice-To-Haves):
- Experience in fintech, capital markets, brokerage, or financial APIs; experience at a Broker-Dealer or securities firms.
- Knowledge of brokerage, post-trade, and settlement operations, as well as regulatory context.
- Closing enterprise deals alongside Account Executives.
- US securities qualifications (e.g., SIE and/or Series 7).
- Familiarity with Metabase.
- Experience working with the FIX protocol.
- Experience working with OpenAPI, ReadMe, and documentation.
- Excited to learn more about the securities industry.
- Spanish or Portuguese.
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role:
As a Sr. Sales Engineer, you will be the go-to product and technical expert for Alpaca's enterprise partners. You will bridge technical and business conversations: a customer-facing engineer with strong API knowledge, experience supporting enterprise customers, and collaborating effectively with our global team. You will support enterprise partners and expand our base of enterprise partners, acting as the technical bridge between local partners, vendors, and regulators and Alpaca's global engineering team.
What you will do:
- Provide technical support and relationship management for existing enterprise customers, acting as a trusted technical advisor throughout the partner lifecycle.
- Partner with the Sales and Solutions teams on pre-sales technical discussions, solution design, and API consultations, and present compelling product and technical use cases to prospective clients.
- Guide new enterprise customers through API integration, implementation, and onboarding.
- Act as the voice of customers by collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to improve localized experiences; translate complex business and technical requirements into clear specifications for Alpaca's global engineering team.
- Serve as the product and technical subject matter expert, capable of thoroughly understanding and articulating all aspects of the Alpaca platform to diverse audiences and stakeholders.
- Work closely with local compliance and operations teams to understand local and regional product requirements.
- Own technical sales engagement end-to-end: discovery calls, solution validation, RFPs, and security questionnaires that win deals; lead demo strategy and execution.
- Create sales support materials and documentation for new features and products, where needed.
- Coordinate with local regulators, vendors, and partners, and relay those requirements to global product and engineering.
- Help customers successfully adopt Alpaca's platform while maintaining a high standard of technical and customer support; travel as needed.
- Stay updated on internal product development timelines and work closely with the product team to test and roll out new features to partners.
What we look for (Must-Haves):
- Experience supporting enterprise / B2B customers in a technical, sales engineering, or solutions engineering role (typically 5+ years), ideally at API or SaaS-first companies.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, SDKs, and software integration workflows; hands-on experience with APIs, WebSockets, Postman, Grafana, and JSON.
- Able to translate complex technical concepts into simple, understandable terms.
- Self-starter who thrives in a startup environment, manages multiple assignments simultaneously, works independently, and drives projects to completion with close attention to detail.
Who You Might Be (Nice-To-Haves):
- Experience in fintech, capital markets, brokerage, or financial APIs; experience at a Broker-Dealer or securities firms.
- Knowledge of brokerage, post-trade, and settlement operations, as well as regulatory context.
- Closing enterprise deals alongside Account Executives.
- US securities qualifications (e.g., SIE and/or Series 7).
- Familiarity with Metabase.
- Experience working with the FIX protocol.
- Experience working with OpenAPI, ReadMe, and documentation.
- Excited to learn more about the securities industry.
- Spanish or Portuguese.
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Recruitment Privacy Policy
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Sales Engineer
Verify your degree supports specialty occupation
USCIS scrutinizes Sales Engineer petitions when the role blends sales duties with technical ones. Pull the O*NET profile for Sales Engineers and document how your engineering or CS degree directly maps to the technical requirements of the specific role.
Target companies with LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to identify employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for Sales Engineer roles specifically, not just engineering broadly. Employers with repeated filings in your technical domain understand the H-1B process and are less likely to withdraw an offer mid-petition.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your work location and job title. Run the OFLC Wage Search for Sales Engineers in your target metro before accepting an offer so you know the wage floor and can negotiate from an informed position.
Flag your technical specialization in your resume
Sales Engineer covers everything from SaaS demos to industrial controls. Employers filing H-1B petitions need a specialty occupation argument, so your resume should lead with the engineering domain, not the sales function, to strengthen the petition narrative before the offer stage.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before your start date
Your employer must be E-Verify enrolled to hire you on H-1B status. Ask HR to confirm enrollment during the offer negotiation stage, not after you've resigned from your current role. Non-enrolled employers can't legally onboard H-1B workers.
File premium processing if your start date is fixed
Sales Engineer roles often come with quota-driven start dates tied to fiscal quarters. USCIS premium processing guarantees a decision within 15 business days and is worth requesting if your employer has a hard onboarding deadline that standard processing can't meet.
H-1B Visa Sales Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Sales Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as engineering, computer science, or a related discipline. The key is that the job description must emphasize technical duties over sales duties. Roles that list a degree as preferred rather than required can draw a Request for Evidence from USCIS, so the job posting language matters before you apply.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most frequently for Sales Engineers?
Enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, industrial automation, and medical devices are the heaviest H-1B filers for Sales Engineer roles. These industries require candidates who can explain complex products to technical buyers, making the engineering degree requirement clear and defensible. You can browse verified sponsors in these sectors on Migrate Mate, filtered specifically for Sales Engineer LCA filings.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Sales Engineer role at a different employer?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as the transfer petition is filed with USCIS, without waiting for approval, provided you're in valid H-1B status. The new employer must file a fresh LCA for your new role and location, and the specialty occupation requirement applies to the new position independently of your previous petition.
How does a Sales Engineer's travel schedule affect H-1B compliance?
Sales Engineers often work across multiple client sites, which creates H-1B worksite compliance obligations. Your employer must file an amended petition or maintain a valid LCA covering each worksite location where you work for more than a short-term period. DOL defines short-term placement rules, but if you're assigned to a client site for extended periods, your employer's HR or legal team needs to account for that in the petition.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Sales Engineer role shifts to a different product line or territory?
A material change in job duties, location, or compensation can require an amended H-1B petition with USCIS. Moving from a technical pre-sales role to a post-sales or account management function, for example, could undermine the specialty occupation basis of your original petition. Document any role changes with your employer's immigration counsel and confirm whether an amendment is needed before the duties formally shift.