Wining and dining, wooing clients with creative offers, and cashing big bonuses provide the glamor to sales work. Drafting answers to hundreds of dull questions posed by a prospective customer's request for proposals? Mercifully for workers, after months of speculation about ChatGPT-style AI taking over white-collar work, the corporate chore of responding to RFPs is one of the first that generative AI is disrupting. In April, communications software maker Twilio introduced RFP Genie, a generative AI tool that digests an RFP, scours thousands of internal files for relevant information, and uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to generate a suitable response. The company's sales staff simply copy and paste the text over into a formal document and make a few adjustments.

Location: US, Central Region OR Toronto, Canada Talend is a 600 employee, recent IPO, big data integration software company with deep open source roots. Well-funded, with over $100 million raised to date and continued rapid growth, Talend is the second largest independent open source company in the world. We are hiring Pre Sales Engineers to continue to build a proactive, customer-facing organization that ensures customers are getting value from Talend's products and solutions. We are seeking Engineers to join the sales team and support the increasing demand from our direct sales. Our portfolio of products has expanded from purely Data Integration to include Data Quality (DQ), Master Data Management (MDM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Big Data.

Oracle is hiring people for a "new startup organization" inside its North America operation that will focus on key technology trends, including cloud computing, internet of things, artificial Intelligence, and augmented and virtual reality. The Solution Engineering organization the company is setting up will consist of Solution Engineering Centers in Reston, Virginia and Denver, Colorado. The database and enterprise software company has previously indicated its interest in investing in some of these technology areas like machine learning and analytics. It announced in September last year that it was investing in intelligent cloud applications, called Adaptive Intelligent Applications, "that automatically offer individualized recommended actions and streamline the tasks of business users such as human resource or finance professionals." Oracle also announced at OpenWorld last year tools for creating intelligent chatbots that integrate with its software.