Senior Pre-Sales Engineer for Higher Education & HPC

Everpure; Indiana; On-site; USD 141,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Wellness resources

Team events

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Job summary

Everpure, a data platform leader, is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, focusing on R1 institutions. You will lead technical engagements with researchers, IT leaders, and procurement, translating research goals into scalable storage and data-management solutions.

Location is Michigan or Indiana. You will collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to craft compelling value propositions, build strong business cases, and secure

Qualifications

• 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: parallel and distributed file systems, GPU-attached storage, schedulers such as 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. 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, data scientists, researchers, 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 skills
• BS in CS, EE, another technical degree, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of each institution's drivers: research priorities, funding cycles, and decision makers
• Connect Everpure technology to measurable research outcomes and budgets
• Navigate conversations with researchers, central IT, CIOs, finance, and procurement for tailored messaging
• Build the business case with total cost of ownership, power, cooling, and data center footprint
• Support research workloads end to end from instruments through HPC and AI pipelines
• Address data management questions: lifecycle, retention, governance, and sponsor requirements
• Collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to craft solutions
• Lead evaluations, proofs of concept, and system configurations for a technical win
• Capture requirements and translate into scalable research capabilities
• Prepare RFIs/RFPs/RFQs responses with precision

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Higher education experience

Customer-facing communication

HPC and AI familiarity

Education

BS in CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

Slurm

GPU storage

Job description

Everpure, a data platform leader, is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, focusing on R1 institutions. You will lead technical engagements with researchers, IT leaders, and procurement, translating research goals into scalable storage and data-management solutions.

Location is Michigan or Indiana. You will collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to craft compelling value propositions, build strong business cases, and secure