Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Higher Education (Northeast)
$141,400 - $234,500 per year
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$141,400 - $234,500 per year
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Computer Systems Design ServicesComputing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related ServicesResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences- Develop a real understanding of what drives each institution: research priorities, funding cycles, capital versus operating constraints, and who actually makes the decision
- Connect technology, including the Everpure portfolio and the broader ecosystem, to measurable research and institutional outcomes
- Move fluently between principal investigators, research computing staff, central IT, CIOs, finance, and procurement, adapting the conversation to each audience instead of delivering the same presentation
- Build the business case alongside the technical one: total cost of ownership, power and cooling, data center footprint, staff time, and the real cost of the current environment
- Support research workloads end to end, from instrument and sequencer output through HPC and AI pipelines to long-term retention and archive
- Help customers work through data management questions: lifecycle and retention, reproducibility, sponsor and funding agency data sharing expectations, research data governance, and security requirements such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC where they apply
- Partner closely with account managers, specialists, channel partners, and higher education purchasing consortia and contract vehicles
- Take ownership of evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations, and secure the technical win
- Capture requirements and translate them into solutions that help institutions grow their research capability rather than just their capacity
- Author responses to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, which in this segment are frequent and detailed
- Stay current on the competitive landscape and make sure our positioning reflects it honestly
- Follow market and research computing trends closely enough to bring that thinking back into our organization
- Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first
- What You'll Bring
- Required8 or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, and customer-facing communication
- Pre-sales or customer-facing technical experience
- Broad technical depth across two or more of: cloud, HPC, AI and machine learning infrastructure, data management, core infrastructure, analytics, or financial and business applications. A career built entirely inside storage is not what we are looking for
- A track record of selling on value: uncovering what the customer is trying to accomplish and connecting technology to business, operational, and financial outcomes
- The ability to hold credible conversations with engineers, architects, executives, finance teams, and procurement, and to adjust the message for each
- Comfort with ambiguity, and the judgment to challenge assumptions and help customers think through complicated decisions
- Curiosity, empathy, an open mind, and a genuine appetite for continuous learning
- Excellent verbal and written communication skillsBS in CS, EE, another technical degree, or equivalent experience
- Helpful, but not required
- Experience with higher education, research computing, academic medical centers, or the public sector
- Familiarity with HPC and AI environments: parallel and distributed file systems, GPU-attached storage, schedulers such as Slurm, and data pipelines for genomics, imaging, or simulation
- Knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, SAN, object) and file systems
- Linux, NFS, and distributed Linux environmentsVMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networkingAWS, Azure, or GCP, and hybrid or cloud-native architectures
- Containers, Kubernetes, and microservices
- Data-intensive applications such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) and analytics platforms
- Experience with grant-funded procurement, consortium purchasing, or public sector contract vehicles
Level
ManagerL7
Salary
$141,400 - $234,500 per year
Location
Denver, CO
Occupation
Sales Engineers
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
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