Pre-Sales System Engineer (Air Force)

Location: Remote in Maryland, Virginia, or Washington, D.C.

Annual base salary: $141,400–$212,100 USD. The role may also be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded data platform company serving hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, and the broader AI ecosystem.

What you will do

• Advise U.S. Air Force and federal defense customers on secure, scalable data-storage solutions.
• Translate mission and technology requirements into solution designs spanning enterprise storage, distributed architectures, file systems, cloud, and modernization initiatives.
• Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, system configurations, and architecture discussions.
• Partner with account managers, specialists, channel partners, product teams, and technical marketing to support account strategy and revenue growth.
• Provide technical leadership across DAS, NAS, SAN, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and software-defined or distributed storage environments.
• Contribute to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses while tracking competitors, market trends, cloud-native architectures, and emerging technologies.

Requirements

• Five or more years of relevant experience in technology, solution design, technical communications, or a related field.
• Demonstrated pre-sales experience supporting enterprise technology customers.
• Experience selling or supporting enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions for enterprise or federal customers.
• Strong understanding of client/server and web-based architectures, including scale-out and scale-up environments.
• Knowledge of cloud-native and public-cloud environments, provisioning automation, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, Linux, NFS, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and networking.
• Experience with storage protocols and architectures, AWS, Azure, GCP, and storage-intensive applications such as SQL and Oracle databases.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting the U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, or other federal customers.
• Experience targeting new prospects, developing relationships, and converting opportunities into customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Values include persistence, creativity, teamwork, ownership, and customer focus.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
• Growth opportunities, innovation-focused work, and an inclusive workplace with employee resource groups.
• Accommodations are available throughout the hiring process for candidates with disabilities.