Pre- Sales Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Solutions & Sales Engineering role at DDN. Tokyo · full-time.
Pay not stated Solutions & Sales Engineering salary
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What you'll do
- Join customer negotiations with sales colleagues and align with sales and development teams
- Shape storage and data designs around customer needs in AI and HPC settings
- Run product tests and PoC demonstrations to show how proposed solutions perform
- Help distributors and end users during rollout, then support them when systems fail
- Prepare product guides and present at seminars and other events
What you bring
- You have presales experience at an IT solutions firm and have designed server or storage systems at a high level
- You understand Linux or UNIX, storage hardware, file systems and networking
- You have presales experience designing proposals for AI, cloud or virtualization platforms
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits someone combining customer-facing presales work with technical design and implementation support. The position is onsite in Tokyo.
From the employer
Summary:
As a Presales Engineer at DDN, you will be the trusted technical advisor to our customers and partners throughout the sales cycle. You will partner with Account Executives to understand customer requirements, design high-performance storage and data solutions for AI and HPC environments, and prove their value through presentations, proofs of concept and benchmarks.
Responsibilities:
Accompanying sales staff in customer negotiations
Coordinating with sales and development departments
Testing new products and solutions, and conducting proof-of-concept (PoC) demonstrations
Providing technical support to distributors and end users during implementation
Providing post-sales support in the event of system failures
Preparing product documentation
Delivering presentations at seminars and other events
Qualifications for this role are:
Communication skills
Pre-sales experience at an IT solutions company and experience in high-level design of server/storage systems
Knowledge of Linux (UNIX)
Knowledge of storage hardware and file systems
Knowledge of networking
Pre-sales experience with AI platforms (proposals and high-level design)
Pre-sales experience with cloud platforms (proposals and high-level design)
Pre-sales experience with virtualization platforms (proposals and high-level design)
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