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VAST Data is seeking a Systems Engineer to join its enterprise infrastructure team. The company is a data platform provider for the AI era, building enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets for real-time analysis and AI training/inference. The role sits at the intersection of customer success, product development, and technical leadership.
Key responsibilities include:
- Assist customers with system evaluations, benchmarks, configurations, and installations
- Work closely with R&D Engineering to define product requirements and usability, including creating product specification documents
- Participate in sales strategy and tactics, owning technical responsibilities within customer accounts
- Demonstrate technical leadership and subject matter expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive offerings in DAS, NAS, and SAN spaces
- Create architecture "blueprints" for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to customers
- Help develop a dispersed group of system and field engineers
- Consult on forming, building, and managing a Support organization
This role requires deep technical knowledge of enterprise storage infrastructure, the ability to translate between customer needs and product capabilities, and leadership experience in building and scaling technical teams. The position offers significant impact at a critical growth phase for the company and in the broader AI infrastructure market.
REQUIREMENTS: Not explicitly stated in the provided posting text.
