Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer for Higher Ed & HPC AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Wellness resources

Team events

Job summary

Everpure in the United States is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, focusing on R1 research universities in Michigan or Indiana. You will be the technical lead on accounts, translating institutional needs into credible, financially sound solutions.

You will collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to build proposals, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and demonstrate how Everpure's data platform capabilities can accelerate research

Qualifications

• 8+ 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 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.
• 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 deep understanding of institutional priorities, funding cycles, and decision makers.
• Connect technology to measurable research and institutional outcomes.
• Adapt conversations to audiences from researchers to CIOs and procurement.
• Build the business case: TCO, power, cooling, footprint, staff time.
• Support research workloads end to end from instruments to AI pipelines and archive.
• Lead evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations.
• Author RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs for higher education segments.
• Stay current on market trends and competitive landscape.
• Lead by example with Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, Customer-first.

Skills

8+ years exp

Pre-sales exp

Higher education exp

HPC/AI environments

Cloud/HPC/ML infra

Value selling

Audience tailoring

Strong comms

Education

BS in CS/EE or equivalent

Equivalent experience

Tools

Slurm

Linux

AWS

Job description

Everpure in the United States is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, focusing on R1 research universities in Michigan or Indiana. You will be the technical lead on accounts, translating institutional needs into credible, financially sound solutions.

You will collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to build proposals, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and demonstrate how Everpure's data platform capabilities can accelerate research