Senior Solutions / Pre-Sales Engineer – AI Platforms
Role Overview
Senior individual-contributor role serving as the technical authority for customer AI platform opportunities.
Works across AI platform architecture, GPU infrastructure, MLOps, customer advisory, solution engineering, and commercial proposal development.
Solutions include OICM, Agentic Fabric, MLOps, GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes, AI storage and networking, air-gapped deployments, AI services, and agentic workflows.
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Role overview
Senior individual-contributor role serving as the technical authority for customer AI platform opportunities.
Works across AI platform architecture, GPU infrastructure, MLOps, customer advisory, solution engineering, and commercial proposal development.
Solutions include OICM, Agentic Fabric, MLOps, GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes, AI storage and networking, air-gapped deployments, AI services, and agentic workflows.
Core responsibilities
- Own technical pre-sales from early discovery through solution definition, proposal, demonstration, validation, and delivery handover.
- Lead discovery and translate customer business, workload, data, model, security, and operational requirements into practical solutions.
- Design and size GPU infrastructure and architectures across compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, orchestration, model serving, training, and fine-tuning.
- Support AI platform service offerings and architect high-speed networking and AI-optimized storage solutions.
- Demonstrate and customize the platform, technical walkthroughs, and proof-of-value scenarios for customer use cases.
- Advise on agents, RAG, model adaptation, evaluation, guardrails, and enterprise integration.
- Create proposals, sizing models, BOMs/BoQs, diagrams, service definitions, assumptions, and handover material.
- Contribute to RFP/RFI/tender responses, customer presentations, opportunity shaping, vendor validation, and reusable pre-sales assets.
- Travel to customer sites across the UAE for workshops, demonstrations, technical validation, proof-of-value work, and executive discussions.
Required qualifications
- 7–10 years in pre-sales/solutions engineering, AI platform or MLOps architecture, infrastructure/systems engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
- Strong hands-on background across AI platforms, MLOps, Kubernetes, compute, networking, storage, virtualization, and data centers.
- Experience with discovery, solution sizing, proposals, BOM/BoQ creation, RFP/RFI responses, demonstrations, and technical handover.
- Practical Kubernetes knowledge spanning production cluster resources, security, scheduling, quotas, access control, and observability.
- Understanding of GPU orchestration, resource scheduling, multi-tenancy, workload isolation, and capacity planning.
- Ability to design and size across platform, compute, storage, and networking and to work independently in complex sales cycles.
- Strong communication, commercial awareness, technical documentation, and customer-facing skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Enterprise, government, regulated, or sovereign AI experience is preferred.
- GPU infrastructure, GPU scheduling, model serving, high-speed networking, enterprise storage, or secure and air-gapped deployment experience is preferred.
- AI-agent, copilot, RAG, agentic workflow, document intelligence, or AI automation experience is preferred.
- Arabic language ability is advantageous but not required.
First 90-day success
Contribute to customer discovery and at least one proposal, including technical positioning, demo preparation, sizing, BoQ/BOM, and handover.
Demonstrate the platform and customize a walkthrough for a real customer use case.
Help Sales qualify technical fit and help Delivery and Engineering understand sold scope, assumptions, capabilities, and risks.
Improve reusable architectures, sizing models, BoQs, demo flows, proposal templates, or technical response material.
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