Pre-Sales Lab Engineer

Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'.

Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. 

We’re looking for a Pre-Sales Lab Engineer to design and manage technical lab environments that showcase the power of Torq’s AI-driven SOC platform.

In this role, you’ll build POC labs, automation workflows, and investigation scenarios powered by AI agents, helping demonstrate how modern SOC teams can detect, investigate, and respond to threats using autonomous security automation.

You will work closely with Sales Engineering, Product, Security, and Marketing teams to deliver hands-on technical experiences for customers and partners.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain POC and demo environments that demonstrate Torq’s AI-driven SOC workflows.
• Design realistic investigation and response scenarios powered by automation and AI agents.
• Integrate leading security tools such as EDR, Email Security, Firewalls, and SIEM into lab environments.
• Support customer POCs and technical sales engagements.
• Build reusable automation workflows and demo scenarios for Sales Engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot and rapidly rebuild environments to support fast sales cycles.
• Support technical events, webinars, and conferences with demo environments and use cases.
• Improve lab scalability through automation and orchestration.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, SOC engineering, SOAR, or security automation
• Hands-on experience with SOC workflows, incident response, or security operations
• Experience working with security and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Okta, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Nessus, ServiceNow, and Jira
• Experience building and managing technical labs, demo environments, or POC infrastructure
• Experience with Python scripting or API integrations
• Familiarity with enterprise environments such as Microsoft Active Directory or Google Workspace administration
•  Strong knowledge of sales engineering processes, technical sales workflows, and customer engagement.
•  Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to different audiences

Nice to Have

• Experience with security automation or SOAR platforms
• Familiarity with AI-driven security workflows

We build AI for a living,  and we encourage candidates to use it to prep, research, and sharpen their best work. But we're hiring humans, not chatbots. We want the real you.  Use AI to tighten your resume, prep for interviews, research Torq, and outline ideas for written responses. Show up as yourself for live interviews, final assessments (the voice, logic, and reasoning need to be yours), and anywhere we're evaluating how you think — not how you prompt.

Excited about our vision and ready to make an impact as we grow? We'd love to see what you can bring to the team.