Sales Engineer

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. NeuralMesh by WEKA sets the standard for agentic AI data infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that dramatically increase GPU utilization and make AI model training and inference, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy.

WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about solving our customers’ most complex data challenges to accelerate intelligent innovation and business value. If you share our passion, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

What you'll be doing:

The regional Senior Sales Engineer in Japan will join our rapidly growing sales organization. Being a WEKA Sales Engineer will require you to partner with customers, understanding their needs and requirements, helping them to leverage the value and performance that WEKA can provide to their business and applications.

          Responsibilities:

• Meet with customers and partners to educate them on the technical aspects of WEKA
• Assist with evaluations and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations and demos
• Become the advocate for WEKA customers and bring feedback back to the R&D and product management organizations
• Become a technical adviser to your customers and periodically review their status and inform on possible improvements
• Become an SME on WEKA and its ecosystem
• Contribute or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
• Help in the creation and maintenance of Q&A’s, best practices, and other technical documentation
• This is a Hands-on position

          Requirements:

• Familiar with high performance IO workloads 
• Extensive filesystems system background - Experience with NFS, SMB and distributed parallel file systems
• Strong Linux OS knowledge
• Data Center networking understanding
• Experience with performance demonstrations and analysis
• Prior experience in working at a start-up company - an advantage
• Experience with running workloads in cloud hypervisors such as AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP