Principal Solution Architect, AI Data Platform
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are
fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead
with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest
team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the
world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if youre ready
to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join
us. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE We are seeking a highly
skilled and self-driven AI/HPC Solutions Architect to join our
team. This execution-focused role is critical for designing,
validating, and documenting innovative solutions in the AI/HPC
space that support our strategic go to market efforts for
Enterprise customers across the globe. You will be part of a highly
collaborative, cross functional team driving solution delivery—from
initial concept to final documentation—across a variety of
environments. Leveraging Pure’s platform, you will address
real-world challenges for customers, partners, and internal teams.
What You Will Be Doing: • AI Solutions Development: Participate in
the definition and execution of the solutions roadmap by executing
on the design, development, validation and delivery of AI Solutions
built and integrated with a variety of Alliance products and Pure’s
entire product suite. • Develop Technical Collateral: Develop
technical documentation, including reference architectures, best
practices, white papers, and solution briefs, that effectively
communicate the value of Pure Storage solutions for AI & HPC
workloads to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Lab
Validation and Demonstration: Build, validate, and document
solutions using Pure Storage technologies in a lab environment. •
Stakeholder Engagement: Present solutions to customers, partners,
and internal teams, translating technical details into business
value and actionable insights. • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Partner with engineering, product management, field architects,
professional services and marketing teams to align solutions with
go-to-market strategies and customer objectives. • Technical
Marketing Support: Collaborate with the marketing team to develop
and refine messaging, presentations, and technical content that
highlights the business value and differentiated value of Pure
Storage solutions for specific target audiences such as
researchers, data scientists, systems engineers and infrastructure
teams. • Professional Documentation: Plan, outline, and publish
professional technical documents on schedule, ensuring accuracy and
clarity. • Customer-Focused Solutions: Collaborate with
stakeholders to understand real-world customer challenges and
deliver practical, impactful solutions. • Collaborative Teamwork:
Work collaboratively within a team and cross-functionally within
the company to achieve common goals and drive innovation. •
Effective Communication: Communicate in a clear and concise
professional manner, tailored to the appropriate audience;
including both verbal and written communications. • Manage Multiple
Priorities: Manage multiple priorities and tasks within a dynamic
work environment, ensuring timely and effective delivery of
projects. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE • Infrastructure
and Platform Expertise: In-depth, holistic knowledge of HPC and AI
environments including NVidia products and platforms, GPU
architecture, storage and networking, performance tuning,
Kubernetes, Scripting languages, Operating Systems. • Storage
Proficiency: An understanding of block, file, and object storage
protocols (e.g., FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3) and their application in
high performance environments. • Platform Knowledge: Expertise in
hybrid cloud platforms, including public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP),
virtualization technologies (Run.ai, OpenShift, Kubernetes), and
Linux based operating systems. • Solution Architecture: Ability to
design, document, and validate comprehensive solutions that address
technical and business needs from the complete software stack
through the infrastructure environment. • Technical Marketing
Skills: Ability to collaborate with marketing teams to create
impactful content, presentations, and messaging that highlights
technical capabilities and customer value for Pure’s target
audience of buyers, influencers and decision makers. • Performance
Optimization: In Depth knowledge of the I/O protocols, pathways and
tuning practices to derive the greatest performance in both real
world environments and across standardized performance benchmarking
tools such as IO500, MLPerf and Stack-m3. Supporting Skills: •
Understanding of large scale environments: Familiarity with data
patterns of GenAI, HPC, Training and Inferencing in real world
applications and how to optimize solutions architectures to extract
efficiency and performance from the entire stack. • Systems
Engineering Knowledge: Proficiency in Linux, Bash/Python scripting,
IP networking, Ansible, Terraform. • Diagnostic Skills: Strong
troubleshooting capabilities for performance issues. Qualifications
: • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
or a related field; or equivalent experience. • Minimum of 8 years
of experience in database architecture, SQL Server solutions, and
related technologies. • Proven ability to execute on strategies and
deliver high-quality solutions aligned with organizational goals. •
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on
delivering practical and impactful solutions. • Excellent verbal
and written communication skills, with the ability to present to
both technical and executive audiences. • Demonstrated adaptability
to learn new technologies and respond to evolving organizational
needs. • Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced setting with
minimal supervision. • We are primarily an in-office environment
and therefore, you will be expected to work from the Bellevue,
Washington office in compliance with Pure’s policies, unless you
are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave.
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