Senior Sales Engineer - AI Storage & HPC Solutions

Data Direct Networks; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly Competitive Vacation Plans

Paid Holidays

Bonus Programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision

Paid Leave Programs

Anniversary and Recognition Awards

Job summary

Data Direct Networks is seeking a Sales Engineer to architect high-performance storage solutions for AI/ML, HPC, and data analytics. You will translate customer requirements into scalable architectures and demos, working across finance, pharma, education, and research sectors.

You will design, benchmark, and propose storage solutions, collaborate with engineering, and mentor teammates while shaping product direction to meet customer needs.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of storage architectures including SAN, NAS and object storage.

Responsibilities

• Architect storage for AI/ML training, HPC simulations and data analytics.
• Design for reliability, resilience, security and scale, balancing performance with data protection.
• Create BOMs, system architectures and technical proposals for complex RFPs.
• Conduct live demos, POCs and performance benchmarking.
• Integrate with GPU clusters, Kubernetes, cloud platforms and AI frameworks.
• Stay current on AI infrastructure and storage technology trends.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams using field insights.
• Mentor team members and contribute to technical thought leadership.
• Shape product direction based on customer needs.

Skills

Storage architectures

SAN/NAS/Obj storage

NFS/SMB

TCP/IP/InfiniBand/RDMA

AI workloads

Communication of technical concepts

Cloud and GPU clusters

Pre-sales experience

Enterprise storage systems

AI/ML infrastructure

HPC workloads

Solution design

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

GPFS

Lustre

Exascaler

Kubernetes

Job description

Data Direct Networks is seeking a Sales Engineer to architect high-performance storage solutions for AI/ML, HPC, and data analytics. You will translate customer requirements into scalable architectures and demos, working across finance, pharma, education, and research sectors.

You will design, benchmark, and propose storage solutions, collaborate with engineering, and mentor teammates while shaping product direction to meet customer needs.