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World’s leading Data Intelligence Platform supercharging over 500,000 GPUs across all data workloads
Sales Engineer – Higher Education
Location
United States
Posted
27 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Sales Engineer – Higher Education
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• Partner with customers to understand their critical data challenges—high-frequency trading, genomics processing, AI model training, or autonomous vehicle sensor fusion • Translate technical requirements into elegant, scalable storage solutions that exceed expectations • Act as trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle • Architect storage for AI/ML training, HPC simulations, data analytics, and GPU-accelerated workloads • Design for reliability, resilience, security, and scale—balancing performance with data protection • Create BOMs, system architectures, and technical proposals for complex RFPs • Conduct live demos, POCs, and performance benchmarking • Integrate with GPU clusters, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and AI frameworks • Stay current on AI infrastructure and storage technology trends
Job Requirements
- 0-3 years of experience in software engineering
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong understanding of storage and data architectures: SAN, NAS, object storage, parallel file systems
- Knowledge of architectural patterns for reliability, resilience, security, and scale
- Understanding of storage and data protocols: S3, POSIX, NFS, SMB
- Familiarity with network protocols: TCP/IP, InfiniBand, RDMA
- Curiosity about massively parallel technologies (Lustre, GPFS, Exascaler)
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineers and executives
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
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