Partner Solutions Engineer
US$140,000 – US$180,000 / yr base salary
Posted 22 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Sr. Partner Solutions Engineer ”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$140,000 – US$180,000 / yr |
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As a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer at vCluster Labs, you aren’t just supporting partner deals; you are building the technical foundation of our partner ecosystem from the ground up. You will be our first dedicated partner-facing pre-sales engineer, turning relationships with NVIDIA, WWT, AMD, and AI Cloud providers like Nebius into validated reference architectures, enabled partner architects, and partner-sourced pipeline. Where there’s a GPU, vCluster needs to be there, and you are the person who makes that real: someone who can whiteboard a GPU cloud architecture with an NVIDIA solution architect in the morning and train a room of partner sellers in the afternoon.
As a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer, your role will include:
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Joint Reference Architectures: Design and validate reference architectures with strategic partners, from NVIDIA blueprints and AMD foundations up through the platform layer: vCluster, vNode, vMetal, and vCluster Platform. Turn one successful deployment into a repeatable, sellable solution with bills of material, deployment guides, demo environments, and benchmarks.
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Partner Enablement: Build and deliver technical enablement for partner architects and sellers, including training dozens of architects at partner Centers of Excellence on the value proposition, cost, and performance story of the vCluster product family, so partners position us to win when we are not in the room.
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Field Enablement: Enable vCluster’s internal field SEs to engage partners effectively, so the partner motion scales beyond one person and the field is never pulled off customers to cover channel work.
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Partner-Led Opportunities: Own technical discovery, demos, and Proofs of Concept for partner-sourced opportunities, always in support of direct field ownership. Run a disciplined POC model: validated business problem, named sponsor, clear success criteria, and a defined production milestone.
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Centers of Excellence: Stand up vCluster presence inside partner Centers of Excellence, such as WWT’s in St. Louis, tied to named customers and qualified pipeline rather than marketing labs.
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Ecosystem Navigation: Build technical credibility across a focused set of 6–8 priority partners, cultivating executive sponsors and technical champions without becoming dependent on a single contact or business unit.
This role could be a fit for you if you bring:
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Deep Kubernetes expertise: You go deep on cluster architecture, Tenant Isolation, and the cloud-native ecosystem, and you can master vCluster, vNode, and vMetal inside and out. This one is required, not preferred.