AI Lab Infrastructure Engineer

SHI International Corp.; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

SHI International Corp. is seeking a Solutions Engineer for the AI Lab to support the development, validation, and delivery of AI-focused infrastructure solutions.

The role partners with AI Lab leadership, Solutions Architects, sales teams, and engineers to translate customer requirements into validated architectures, BOMs, and deployment plans. You will demonstrate capabilities, assist with POCs, and enable presales activities across AI, data center, cloud, and networking domains for enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3–5+ years of presales engineering, solutions engineering, infrastructure consulting, or technical solution design focused on data center technologies, cloud platforms, or AI infrastructure.
• Experience designing, configuring, or supporting infrastructure solutions in enterprise data center environments.
• Familiarity with GPU technologies, AI infrastructure platforms, or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience developing BOMs, technical configurations, sizing recommendations, and solution documentation.
• Ability to support customer discovery sessions, technical workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements.
• Strong self-directed learning mindset with the ability to stay current in rapidly evolving AI, infrastructure, and platform ecosystems.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with sales, engineering, partners, and customers in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Willingness to work flexible schedules, including evenings and weekends, as project needs require.
• Ability to travel up to 15% for customer, partner, and industry engagements.
• Advanced certifications, published research, or open-source contributions related to AI, infrastructure, or cloud technologies are considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and validate AI infrastructure solutions that align with customer use cases, AI Lab offerings, partner technologies, and business requirements.
• Utilize OEM and partner reference architectures to recommend scalable, performant, and cost‑effective AI platforms.
• Participate in customer discovery sessions, workshops, and technical consultations to assess requirements and recommend AI infrastructure solutions.
• Act as a technical advisor throughout the presales lifecycle, helping customers understand solution capabilities, deployment considerations, and expected outcomes.
• Develop detailed infrastructure configurations including servers, GPUs, networking, storage, power, cooling, and rack requirements.
• Create and maintain accurate Bills of Materials (BOMs), sizing recommendations, and technical solution documentation.
• Support and deliver technical demonstrations, solution walkthroughs, proofs of concept (POCs), and platform validation activities for customers and internal stakeholders.
• Assist with testing and validating AI infrastructure designs to ensure readiness for customer deployment.
• Partner with AI Lab leadership, Solutions Architects, Sales, Engineering, Product Management, and Partner teams to support solution development and customer opportunities.
• Collaborate with account teams to align technical recommendations with customer business objectives and desired outcomes.
• Work closely with NVIDIA, OEM partners, cloud providers, and technology vendors to stay current on product roadmaps, certifications, and emerging AI technologies.
• Support evaluation of AI platforms, infrastructure components, and solution patterns for customer and AI Lab use cases.
• Assist in developing technical enablement materials, solution documentation, playbooks, and training content for internal sales and engineering teams.
• Help educate SHI teams on AI infrastructure trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Support opportunity qualification, solution scoping, technical proposal development, and responses to RFPs, RFIs, and customer technical inquiries.
• Assist account teams in identifying opportunities across AI, Data Center, Cloud, Network, Security, and Services solution areas.

Skills

Presales engineering

Solutions engineering

Infrastructure design

Customer discovery

Technical demonstrations

BOM development

Technical enablement

Communication

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

NVIDIA DGX

HGX platforms

Kubernetes

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Docker

Job description

SHI International Corp. is seeking a Solutions Engineer for the AI Lab to support the development, validation, and delivery of AI-focused infrastructure solutions.

The role partners with AI Lab leadership, Solutions Architects, sales teams, and engineers to translate customer requirements into validated architectures, BOMs, and deployment plans. You will demonstrate capabilities, assist with POCs, and enable presales activities across AI, data center, cloud, and networking domains for enterprise