Pure Storage
Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Higher Education (Mid-Atlantic)
$141K–$212K
Remote, Maryland +3 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Maryland
Remote, Virginia
Maryland, United States
Virginia, United States - Experience
- 8 or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, and customer-facing communication.
- Education
- BS in CS, EE, another technical degree, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads technical pre-sales work for higher education accounts, designing and positioning infrastructure solutions for research and institutional outcomes.
What you'll do
- Develop customer-specific solutions and business cases; support research workloads from data generation through HPC, AI pipelines, and long-term retention.
- Lead evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, configurations, and technical wins; author RFI, RFP, and RFQ responses.
- Partner with account teams, specialists, channel partners, and purchasing consortia while engaging stakeholders across research, IT, finance, and procurement.
What they ask for
- 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, including parallel and distributed file systems, GPU-attached storage, schedulers such as Slurm, and research data pipelines.
- BS in CS, EE, another technical degree, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of storage architectures and file systems; Linux, NFS, networking, cloud platforms, containers, or Kubernetes.
- Experience with grant-funded procurement, consortium purchasing, or public sector contract vehicles.
Pay
$141,400 — $212,100 USD (base salary)
Tools
HPC, AI, Slurm, Linux, NFS, VMware, AWS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Supports higher education AI and machine-learning research environments, including GPU-attached storage and data pipelines.
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