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Senior Sales Engineer - Strategic AI

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1 month ago
Madrid, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers to understand data challenges and translate requirements into scalable storage solutions.
  • Architect storage for AI/ML training, HPC simulations, analytics, GPU-accelerated workloads, and autonomous systems.
  • Design for reliability, resilience, security, performance, data protection, and scale.
  • Create BOMs, system architectures, and technical proposals for complex RFPs.
  • Conduct live demonstrations, proofs of concept, and performance benchmarking.
  • Integrate storage solutions with GPU clusters, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and AI frameworks.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout sales cycles and communicate with engineers and executives.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering, mentor team members, contribute technical thought leadership, and inform product direction.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience for entry-level candidates.
  • Strong understanding of SAN, NAS, object storage, parallel file systems, and storage/data architectures.
  • Knowledge of reliability, resilience, security, and scalability patterns and of S3, POSIX, NFS, and SMB.
  • Familiarity with TCP/IP, InfiniBand, RDMA, Lustre, GPFS, and Exascaler.
  • Entry-level candidates may qualify through coursework, internships, or projects involving storage or systems.
  • Experienced candidates should have 3–8+ years in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting and a record of designing storage or infrastructure solutions.
  • Hands-on enterprise storage experience and customer-facing communication skills are required; AI/ML infrastructure, HPC, or high-performance workload experience is preferred.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, ownership, collaboration, and technical sales-cycle management abilities.

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Solutions Engineering
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About DDN

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