Product Application Engineer- Datacenter Deployment

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THE ROLE:

This highly technical role supports large-scale datacenter graphics hardware and software subsystem initiatives for cloud service provider and enterprise customers. You will work across complex virtualization, networking, datacenter infrastructure, AI/Machine Learning, and system-level program execution to ensure customers can successfully deploy solutions powered by high-performance accelerators.

You will collaborate closely with customer engineering teams on system readiness, deployment, performance validation, and issue resolution. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on datacenter networking work, solving complex distributed computing problems, and influencing customer success for next-generation GPU and CPU technologies. The environment is fast-paced, highly cross-functional, and technical in nature.

THE PERSON:

You bring exceptional technical depth in datacenter virtualization, distributed systems, and ideally GPU-accelerated compute. You are analytical, detail-oriented, proactive, and operate with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.

You excel at troubleshooting across hardware, virtualization software, and networking stacks, communicating complex concepts clearly, and building strong partnerships with customers. You are a self-starter who thrives in a collaborative engineering environment, brings strong interpersonal skills, and maintains a positive, results-driven mindset.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, optimize, and troubleshoot virtualization solutions for high-performance datacenter GPU, CPU, and related platforms.
• Support customers, partners, and internal teams on virtualization topics related to AI and Machine Learning workloads.
• Work with virtualization technologies across multiple vendors such as KVM, Kubernetes, VMware, and Hyper-V.
• Build and configure datacenter networking environments for customer testing, validation, and deployment.
• Qualify and assess new virtualization capabilities to ensure alignment with customer and product requirements.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineering staff.
• Partner with development teams to identify and resolve hardware/software issues from early bring-up through end-of-life.
• Document and escalate technical issues following established procedures.
• Collaborate with program managers to maintain schedules, track action items, and ensure deliverables are met.
• Provide clear project status updates to internal leadership and customer stakeholders.
• Build a deep understanding of customer goals to ensure impactful technical guidance and solution delivery.
• Translate customer feedback into actionable recommendations for internal engineering teams.
• Travel up to 20% to support customer deployments, onsite debugging, technical reviews, and collaborative engineering sessions.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Datacenter customer support in virtualization-focused environments.
• Virtual environments (VMWare, Citrix, KVM, Microsoft, and others) and virtual machine configuration/management.
• Data storage, protection, deduplication, and storage-related network optimization especially with Weka, DDN, and VAST products.
• Working in or closely with a deployment services organization utilizing tools like Salesforce, JIRA and Confluence.
• Linux installation, configuration, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Debugging, root-cause analysis, and system-level problem solving.
• Site reliability engineering concepts and best practices.
• Server architecture, remote management, network topologies, and compute subsystem operations.
• Datacenter GPU software stacks such as ROCm or CUDA.
• High-performance networks for HPC and AI (RDMA/RoCE, InfiniBand).
• AI/ML workloads, frameworks, and models.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey highly technical concepts.
• Ability to operate independently, manage multiple priorities, and maintain strong organizational discipline.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field preferred.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certifications preferred, including Kubernetes, VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, KVM, and Hyper-V and others related to Networking, Virtualization, or Data Storage

Austin, TX, Santa Clara, CA, Secaucus, NJ or Markham, Canada

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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