Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Higher Education

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🕒 September 18

🗽 New York, Massachusetts, +1 more states – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $141.4k - $234.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔍 Pre-sales Engineer

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📋 Description

• Develop an understanding of each institution's research priorities, funding cycles, budget constraints, and decision makers • Connect the Everpure portfolio and broader ecosystem to measurable research and institutional outcomes • Adapt technical conversations for principal investigators, research computing staff, central IT, CIOs, finance, and procurement • Build technical and business cases covering total cost of ownership, power and cooling, data center footprint, staff time, and current-environment costs • Support research workloads from instrument and sequencer output through HPC and AI pipelines to long-term retention and archive • Advise customers on data lifecycle, retention, reproducibility, sponsor and funding-agency data sharing, governance, and security requirements • Partner with account managers, specialists, channel partners, and higher-education purchasing consortia • Own evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations to secure technical wins • Capture requirements and translate them into scalable research-capability solutions • Author responses to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs • Monitor the competitive landscape and research-computing trends • Lead by example through the Pure Values

🎯 Requirements

• 8 or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, and customer-facing communication • Pre-sales or customer-facing technical experience • Experience with higher education, research computing, academic medical centers, or the public sector • Familiarity with HPC and AI environments, including parallel and distributed file systems, GPU-attached storage, Slurm, and data pipelines for genomics, imaging, or simulation • 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 • Track record of selling on value and connecting technology to business, operational, and financial outcomes • Ability to communicate credibly with engineers, architects, executives, data scientists, researchers, finance teams, and procurement • Comfort with ambiguity and judgment to challenge assumptions • Curiosity, empathy, open-mindedness, and appetite for continuous learning • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • BS in CS, EE, another technical degree, or equivalent experience • Knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures, file systems, Linux, NFS, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, networking, cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, SQL, Oracle, grant-funded procurement, consortium purchasing, or public sector contract vehicles is helpful but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Incentive pay and/or equity may be available • Flexible time off • Wellness resources • Company-sponsored team events • Growth support and professional development • Employee Resource Groups • Hiring-process accommodations for candidates with disabilities

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