Pre- Sales Engineer
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · Tokyo
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 19 October 2026.
About the role
Summary:
As a Presales Engineer at DDN, you will be the trusted technical advisor to our customers and partners throughout the sales cycle. You will partner with Account Executives to understand customer requirements, design high-performance storage and data solutions for AI and HPC environments, and prove their value through presentations, proofs of concept and benchmarks.
Responsibilities:
- Accompanying sales staff in customer negotiations
- Coordinating with sales and development departments
- Testing new products and solutions, and conducting proof-of-concept (PoC) demonstrations
- Providing technical support to distributors and end users during implementation
- Providing post-sales support in the event of system failures
- Preparing product documentation
- Delivering presentations at seminars and other events
Qualifications for this role are:
- Communication skills
- Pre-sales experience at an IT solutions company and experience in high-level design of server/storage systems
- Knowledge of Linux (UNIX)
- Knowledge of storage hardware and file systems
- Knowledge of networking
- Pre-sales experience with AI platforms (proposals and high-level design)
- Pre-sales experience with cloud platforms (proposals and high-level design)
- Pre-sales experience with virtualization platforms (proposals and high-level design)
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Unix
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The team: Sales Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 10 open in Sales Engineering. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Kubernetes (4 of 10), Networking (3 of 10), Generative AI (2 of 10), Linux (2 of 10), LLM (2 of 10), PyTorch (2 of 10), RAG (2 of 10)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- VP, Sales Engineering - EMEA posted Oct 13
- Principal Solution Architect posted Oct 6
- Senior Sales Engineer posted Sep 15
- Demo Engineer, EMEA posted Sep 8
- AI Value Engineer posted Sep 2
- Advisory Sales Engineer - Strategic AI posted Aug 18
- Senior Sales Engineer posted Jul 22
- Senior Solutions Architect - Pre Sales posted Jul 16
- Principal Solutions Architect - FSI posted Jul 16
From the team and dates on DDN's own job board.
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