Presales HPC&AI Solutions Architect

Presales HPC&AI Solutions Architect<p style="text-align:inherit">  </p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Who We Are:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left">Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description:</b></p><p style="text-align:inherit">   </p><p><b><i>Job Family Definition:</i></b></p><p></p><p>In a typical day, a <b>Presales Consultant -Technical Architect </b>will:</p><ul><li>Configure <b>hardware clusters for HPC & AI </b>workloads using your knowledge of <b>Infiniband and Ethernet networking</b>.</li><li>Applies advanced knowledge of company <b>hardware products and infrastructure solutions</b> as well as customers' business and technical environment to translate the functional view into a technical view and architect complex solutions that can be scaled to accommodate growth.</li></ul><p></p><p>Responsible for architecting solutions that will achieve customer business outcomes either within a specific technical domain, or across the broader company portfolio (hardware, software, services, and as a service offerings) in combination with all necessary third-party components (e.g. software and integration). Develops and articulates compelling, accurate, and relevant proposals and ensures customer's business and technical requirements are met. Can be aligned to a specific area of technical expertise (e.g., products, solutions, services). Provides technical expertise to sales teams and customers (through sales presentations, product/solution demonstrations, etc.) aimed at gaining the customer mindshare within their domain. These jobs focus on technical selling to customers/partners. May be aligned to specific accounts based on business priority.</p><p></p><p><b><i>Management Level Definition:</i></b></p><p>Contributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Provides expertise and partnership to functional and technical project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Exercises significant independent judgment to determine best method for achieving objectives. May provide team leadership and mentoring to others.</p><p></p><p><i><b>Responsibilities:</b></i></p><ul><li>Lead presales technical engagements: gather requirements, translate business outcomes into functional and technical architectures, and present proposals to customers and partners.</li><li>Architect end-to-end HPC/AI infrastructure: compute/GPU nodes, storage, interconnects, orchestration, monitoring, and management.</li><li>Design and validate high-performance networking for east–west and north–south traffic (InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet); size interconnects and topology for GPU-accelerated workloads.</li><li>Create detailed BOMs, rack elevations, cable/power plans, PDU layouts, and facility-fit analyses (power, cooling, rack density, liquid cooling considerations).</li><li>Build and run POCs/demos, run benchmarks, tune systems, and document results and recommendations.</li><li>Prepare technical content for RFI/RFP responses, risk assessments, and implementation plans.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, engineering, product management, services, and partners to ensure deliverability and commercial alignment.</li><li>Mentor junior presales engineers and maintain reusable presales collateral and demonstration playbooks.</li><li>Represent the organization at customer sites, partner labs, and industry events as required.</li><li></li></ul><p><i><b>Education and Experience:</b></i></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with demonstrated hands‑on work on HPC/AI clusters.</li><li>Proven experience designing and validating GPU‑accelerated clusters (NVIDIA preferred) including compute/node sizing, networking (InfiniBand and high‑speed Ethernet), and storage considerations.</li><li>Demonstrable facility‑level skills: producing BOMs, rack elevations, power/cooling/PDUs and cabling plans, and performing facility‑fit assessments (rack density, liquid cooling, P2P cabling).</li><li>Hands‑on POC and performance validation experience (benchmarking/tuning) plus scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar) is a plus</li><li>Strong written/verbal communication for customer deliverables.</li></ul><p></p><p><i><b><span>Preferred Qualifications</span></b></i></p><ul><li><span>Familiarity with cluster schedulers and storage (Slurm, PBS,<span> </span></span>Lustre, Weka, Vast).</li><li>Experience with vendor reference architectures (e.g., NVIDIA<span><span> </span></span><span>NCP</span>), orchestration (Kubernetes for AI), or hybrid cloud HPC integrations.</li><li>Prior presales experience: RFI/RFP responses, proposals, and customer-facing demos.</li><li>Relevant industry certifications (networking, storage, or vendor-specific).</li><li></li></ul><div><p><i><b><span>Nice-to-Have</span></b></i></p></div><ul><li>Benchmarking and performance tuning for AI training/inference.</li><li>Experience with systems integrators, OEMs, or hyperscale data-center environments.</li></ul><ul></ul><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Additional Skills:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>What We Can Offer You:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Health & Wellbeing</b></p><p style="text-align:left">We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Personal & Professional Development</b></p><p style="text-align:left">We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Unconditional Inclusion</b></p><p style="text-align:left">We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Let's Stay Connected:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><span>Follow <a href="http://instagram.com/hpecareers" target="_blank">@HPECareers</a> on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>#unitedstates<h3></h3><h3></h3>#highperformancecompute<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job:</b></p>Sales<p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Level:</b></p>TCP_04<p style="text-align:inherit"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span class="WHN0">    </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.<br> – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 166,000 - 322,000 in Massachusetts // 146,000 - 343,000 in Texas<br>This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 80%/20%."<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><span>Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at </span><a href="https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html" target="_blank">https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html</a></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><span>HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span class="WHN0">Veterans/Disabled/LGBT</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: </span><a href="https://hr.ext.hpe.com/Equal-employment-opportunity-policy.pdf" target="_blank">Equal Employment Opportunity</a><span>.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align:left"><b><span>Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.</span></b></p><p style="text-align:inherit">   </p><p style="text-align:left"><span>HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.</span></p><p style="text-align:inherit">   </p><p style="text-align:left"><b><span>No Fees Notice & Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer</span></b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"><b><span> </span></b></p><p style="text-align:left"><i><span>It has come to HPE’s attention that there has been an increase in recruitment fraud whereby scammer impersonate HPE or HPE-authorized recruiting agencies and offer fake employment opportunities to candidates.  These scammers often seek to obtain personal information or money from candidates.</span></i></p><p style="text-align:inherit"><span> </span></p><p style="text-align:left"><i><span>Please note that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), its direct and indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and its authorized recruitment <span><span><span class="WHN0">agencies/vendors </span></span></span><b>will never charge any candidate a registration fee, hiring fee, or any other fee in connection with its recruitment and hiring process.  </b>The credentials of any hiring agency that claims to be working with HPE for recruitment of talent should be verified by candidates and candidates shall be solely responsible to conduct such verification. Any candidate/individual who relies on the erroneous representations made by fraudulent employment agencies does so at their own risk, and HPE disclaims liability for any damages or claims that may result from any such communication.</span></i></p>

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