Senior Manager, Sales Engineering — AI / GPU Cloud (NeoCloud)

Mirantis; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Conferences & tech talks

Open-source culture

Competitive compensation

On-site collaboration

Job summary

Mirantis, an IREN company, is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer Leader to build and run the SE/solutions-architecture function for large, strategic deals. You will own the technical win, architect cutting-edge GPU/AI infrastructure solutions, and coordinate with account teams to win multi-year commitments.

Strong cloud, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA platform expertise are essential for this high-impact role. You will shape pre-sales enablement, develop reusable reference architectures, and drive POCs

Qualifications

• Experience running or standing up ML workloads beyond talk, including training and inference lifecycle.
• Fluency in training/inference pipelines, distributed training, and performance bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the SE/solutions-architecture team for Mirantis in large deals.
• Own the technical win in complex B2B opportunities from discovery to close.
• Architect compute, networking, storage, and orchestration solutions; deliver TCO/ROI models.
• Design POCs/POVs with clear success criteria and benchmarks.
• Coordinate with field and partners to co-sell and align roadmap with field learning.

Skills

ML workloads

NVIDIA platform

Leadership

Enterprise sales

Cloud/Kubernetes

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. https://www.mirantis.com/

Job Description

Why this role exists

K0rdent AI is the orchestration layer that turns raw, disaggregated GPU infrastructure into a multi-tenant, production-ready AI cloud — without locking companies into a single hyperscaler or hardware vendor. We sell accelerated compute: GPU clusters, bare metal, and managed AI infrastructure to Neoclouds, AI-native startups, enterprise AI teams, research labs, and sovereign/regulated buyers. These are technical, high-value, long-cycle deals where the sale is won or lost on credibility: whether we can architect the right cluster, model the real TCO, prove performance, and de-risk a customer's move onto our platform.

This person owns the technical win. They build and lead the sales engineering function that turns "interested" into signed, multi-year committed-capacity contracts, and they set the pre-sales bar as we scale headcount and deal volume.

This is not a demo-jockey role. We need someone who has genuinely stood up training and inference workloads, argued interconnect topology with a customer's ML infra lead, and closed large deals with cycles measured in quarters, not weeks.

What you'll own

Lead and build the SE / Solutions Architect team

Hire, coach, and retain a team of sales engineers and solutions architects; define the pre-sales operating model as the org scales.

Build the reusable machinery: discovery frameworks, reference architectures, TCO/benchmark models, POV playbooks, demo and benchmark environments, RFP response libraries.

Set and hold a technical quality bar across the team; run enablement so every SE can speak credibly to GPU architecture, networking, and orchestration.

Own the technical win in large, complex deals

Partner with Account Executives as the technical lead on strategic and enterprise opportunities from discovery through technical close.

Run qualification with a real methodology (MEDDPICC or equivalent) — surface the economic buyer, decision criteria, and the technical champion, and build the win plan around them.

Architect solutions across compute, networking, storage, and orchestration; produce sizing, capacity plans, and TCO comparisons vs. hyperscalers and self-build.

Design and drive POCs/POVs: define success criteria up front, run benchmarks, and convert results into commercial momentum.

Be the Technical voice of the Customer internally

Feed structured product and capacity requirements back to product, platform, and supply/capacity planning.

Work alongside the NVIDIA field and partner ecosystem (Cloud Partner program, reference architectures, joint pursuits) to strengthen deals.

Influence roadmap and packaging based on what you learn in the field.

Qualifications

Required:

You have actually run or stood up ML workloads — distributed training and/or production inference — not just talked about them.

Practical fluency in the training and inference lifecycle: data pipelines, distributed training (multi-node/multi-GPU), fine-tuning, and serving; you understand where bottlenecks actually live (interconnect, memory bandwidth, I/O, scheduling).

Comfortable in the frameworks and tooling customers use — PyTorch and the surrounding ecosystem (e.g., NCCL, CUDA-level concepts, containers, schedulers).

Deep knowledge of the NVIDIA platform and GPU products

Current on the NVIDIA compute stack across the Hopper and Blackwell generations (e.g., H100/H200, GB200 NVL72 / B200-class systems, Grace-Hopper superchips) and the reference-system families (DGX, HGX, MGX); aware of what's coming next-generation.

Networking fluency: NVLink/NVSwitch domains, InfiniBand (Quantum) vs. Spectrum-X Ethernet fabrics, RDMA/RoCE, DPUs — and why fabric choice makes or breaks large training clusters.

Software and platform layer: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NIM, NeMo, Triton / TensorRT-LLM, Base Command, Run:ai / GPU orchestration, and the NGC ecosystem.

Understands the NVIDIA Cloud Partner motion and how to co-sell with NVIDIA.

Enterprise sales engineering on long, high-value cycles

Track record supporting complex B2B deals with cycles of 6–18+ months and large ACV/TCV, ideally including multi-year committed-capacity or reserved-capacity structures.

Skilled at multi-stakeholder navigation — ML/infra leads, platform engineering, procurement, finance, security, and executive sponsors.

Can build and defend a TCO/ROI model against hyperscaler and on-prem alternatives, and translate performance benchmarks into commercial value.

Proven team leadership

Has hired, developed, and led a sales engineering / solutions architecture team (or clearly demonstrated the readiness to), including building process and enablement from a light or greenfield starting point.

Player-coach mindset: still credible in the room on the hardest deals, while scaling others to do the same.

Strongly preferred

Experience selling GPU cloud, HPC, or specialized infrastructure — ideally at a NeoCloud / GPU-cloud provider, hyperscaler AI org, or accelerated-hardware vendor.

Hands-on with cloud-native and cluster orchestration for AI: Kubernetes (and GPU operators / device plugins), Slurm, and multi-cluster management approaches; familiarity with virtualized GPU / KubeVirt-style patterns is a plus.

Storage-for-AI literacy — high-throughput parallel/object storage and its role in training pipelines.

Experience with data center economics and constraints: power, cooling, rack density, and how capacity availability shapes deals.

Exposure to sovereign, regulated, or government AI buyers.

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?

• Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
• Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
• Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation;
• Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued;
• Professional development and training;
• Attend conferences and working groups;
• Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks;
• Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.