Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Automotive
Pure StorageDetroit, Michigan
Full Time
Posted December 10, 2025
$151k - $228k
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
This role involves providing technical leadership and support in enterprise storage solutions, developing innovative technology-based customer solutions, and collaborating with sales and marketing teams to drive growth in the data storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and support as a role model and mentor for Systems Engineers
- Develop an understanding of customer business drivers and motivations
- Create social media content such as blogs and posts
- Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes
- Collaborate with account teams to enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth
- Refine sales strategies and take responsibility for technical aspects
- Deliver technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products and architectures
- Conduct presentations, solution demonstrations, and participate in executive briefings
- Translate customer business needs into innovative storage solutions
- Lead or contribute to responses for RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- Identify and promote opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Produce marketing materials like whitepapers and web presentations
- Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and promote thought leadership
- Serve as a solution expert in complex proof-of-concept and total cost of ownership calculations
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
- Pre-sales experience is required
- 8 or more years of relevant experience, including experience in technology, design, and communications
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts
- Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions
- Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture
- Strong knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN
- Superior knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment
- Knowledge of installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts
- Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- Ability to move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership
- Ability to connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes
- Excellent communication skills for presentations, solution demonstrations, and engaging with customers and internal teams
- Ability to capture customer requirements and translate them into innovative solutions
- Strong technical leadership and domain expertise in storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in DAS, NAS, and SAN spaces
- Ability to act as a role model and mentor for other Systems Engineers
- Willingness to stay current with competition and ensure materials reflect latest solution positioning
- Ability to support and develop social media content such as blogs and posts
- Willingness to support social media content creation and participate in industry activities
- Ability to support and contribute to technical marketing materials such as whitepapers and web presentations
- Strong curiosity and passion for technology and explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 151,000 - 228,000 USD
Potential for incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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