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title: "Advisory Sales Engineer - Strategic AI"
company: "DDN"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/ddn"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/ddn-advisory-sales-engineer-strategic-ai-7a889f00-079e-446d-a83c-808acb71078e"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/d21ece5c-f5e5-4136-b128-2fc999b04ab5"
workplace: remote
location: "Remote - Germany"
remote_scope: "Germany"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: sales
region: europe
skills: ["kubernetes"]
date_posted: 2026-08-18T08:52:57.706Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T14:59:51.256Z
---

# Advisory Sales Engineer - Strategic AI

**DDN** · Remote - Germany

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/d21ece5c-f5e5-4136-b128-2fc999b04ab5

## About the role

As a Sales Engineer, you'll architect high-performance storage solutions that enable customers to achieve their boldest ambitions. Work across finance, pharmaceuticals, education, and physical AI—designing systems that power real-time trading, accelerate drug discovery, enable groundbreaking research, and fuel autonomous systems.

You'll translate complex customer requirements into elegant technical solutions, demonstrate capabilities through POCs and benchmarks, and serve as a trusted advisor throughout the sales cycle.

#### What You'll Do

#### Customer Engagement

- Partner with customers to understand their critical data challenges—high-frequency trading, genomics processing, AI model training, or autonomous vehicle sensor fusion

- Translate technical requirements into elegant, scalable storage solutions that exceed expectations

- Act as trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle

#### Solution Design

- Architect storage for AI/ML training, HPC simulations, data analytics, and GPU-accelerated workloads

- Design for reliability, resilience, security, and scale—balancing performance with data protection

- Create BOMs, system architectures, and technical proposals for complex RFPs

- Conduct live demos, POCs, and performance benchmarking

- Integrate with GPU clusters, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and AI frameworks

#### Innovation & Growth

- Stay current on AI infrastructure and storage technology trends

- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams using field insights

- Mentor team members and contribute to technical thought leadership

- Shape product direction based on customer needs

#### What You Bring

#### Technical Foundation (All Levels)

- Strong understanding of storage and data architectures: SAN, NAS, object storage, parallel file systems

- Knowledge of architectural patterns for reliability, resilience, security, and scale

- Understanding of storage and data protocols: S3, POSIX, NFS, SMB

- Familiarity with network protocols: TCP/IP, InfiniBand, RDMA

- Curiosity about massively parallel technologies (Lustre, GPFS, Exascaler)

- Aptitude for AI workloads and how storage enables AI innovation

- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineers and executives

- Fluent German is required

#### Entry Level (0-3 years)

- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

- Exposure to storage/systems through coursework, internships, or projects

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Customer-facing communication skills

#### Experienced (3+ years)

- 3-8+ years in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting

- Proven track record designing storage/infrastructure solutions

- Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems

- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, HPC, or high-performance workloads (preferred)

- Success managing complex technical sales cycles

#### What Sets You Apart

- Genuine curiosity about AI and its impact across industries

- Ownership mindset—you solve problems until they're solved

- Ability to translate technical complexity into business value

- Thrive in fast-evolving technology environments

- Collaborative team player with integrity and empathy

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