# Senior Distinguished Technologist – Pre-Sales AI & Data Center Networking

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Annual Salary USD 293,000 - 587,000 in Massachusetts // 293,000 - 624,000 in California & New York // 257,500 - 624,000 in North Carolina & Texas
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Distinguished Technologist to lead architecture and solution design for AI/ML Networking Infrastructure, Data Center, and WAN networking opportunities globally.

The successful candidate will have deep technical expertise, experience, creative problem-solving, and strong customer engagement skills to influence and shape multi-billion-dollar deals.

Responsibilities:

- Act as a primary technical architect early in complex sales cycles, working independently or with Sales Engineers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

- Architect end-to-end networking infrastructure solutions with strong expertise in data center, AI networking, hyperscale environments, and WAN technologies.

- Lead solution design and customization, orchestrating input from specialists, systems engineers, and product teams to meet customer requirements.

- Deliver compelling demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical presentations that clearly articulate HPE Networking's value in customer use cases.

- Engage with hyperscalers, large enterprises, service providers, and technology partners to co-design solutions addressing emerging challenges across industries and workloads.

- Influence technical strategy throughout deal validation, solutioning, and initial execution, ensuring smooth handoff to delivery teams.

- Develop best practices, enablement collateral, and architecture playbooks to scale solutions internally and with partners.

- Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior technologists and sales engineering teams.

- Navigate and adapt through complex technology transitions, maintaining thought leadership in networking innovations and industry trends.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required, advanced degree preferred.

- 20+ years of technical experience in network infrastructure Architecture, design, and solutions consulting, designing large-scale AI, Cloud Data Center in Hyperscale networking environments.

- 20+ years of industry experience applying technical expertise with JunOS, EOS, IOS, and hyperscale network architecture frameworks. JNCIE or equivalent certification.

- Experience presenting and driving technology thought leadership at relevant industry events, and experience driving standards and other forward-looking initiatives with relevant standards bodies such as OCP, IETF, UEC, IEEE...

- Deep hands-on expertise with hyperscaler routing, MPLS traffic engineering, switching, SDN overlays (EVPN/VXLAN, MP-BGP), Network Fabrics and DCI solutions, network provisioning, automation, and monitoring (Apstra, Paragon, NETCONF/REST APIs, YANG).

- Familiarity with major networking silicon, hardware platforms, and related software (e.g., Juniper, Arista, Cisco, SONiC, Cumulus, etc.).

- SME in Virtualization technologies on x86 and scaling using technologies such as DPDK, SR-IOV, SmartNIC, etc.

- Proven success in complex pre-sales roles, with a strong ability to build relationships with senior technical and C-Level stakeholders.

- Experience with programming/scripting (Python, APIs, JSON, etc.) to enable solution integration and automation.

- Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence diverse technical and business audiences.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

- Investment in career development and growth.

- Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.

## Skills

### Required
- JunOS
- EOS
- IOS
- hyperscale network architecture
- JNCIE
- Python
- APIs
- JSON
- SDN overlays
- EVPN/VXLAN
- MP-BGP
- Network Fabrics
- DCI solutions
- Apstra
- Paragon
- NETCONF/REST APIs
- YANG
- DPDK
- SR-IOV
- SmartNIC

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