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Pre- Sales Engineer

Tokyo Office
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

Rare in DDN's other 72 open postings.

Read against DDN's other open postings on this site.

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

From the team and dates on DDN's own job board.

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