Description review

Senior Systems Engineer - Federal

VAST Data · United States · back to the listing

HR standards

49/100

poor

Title ↔ description

49/100

poor

Reads as

Sales Engineer

100% confident

What this role officially is

technical sales representative — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Technical sales representatives act for a business to sell its merchandise while providing technical insight for customers.

Also known as: assistant technical sales representative, field saleswoman, inside technical sales representative, field salesperson, technical field sales representative, trainee technical sales engineer

How others title the same work

Large employers

  • Embedded Linux Consultant - Japan Canonical
  • Embedded Linux Field Engineer for Devices/IoT Canonical
  • Alliances Field Engineer Canonical Ltd.
  • Embedded Linux Field Engineer for Devices/IoT Canonical Ltd.
  • Ubuntu Sales Engineer (Entry-Level) Canonical Ltd.

Startups

  • Forward Deployed Engineer Encord
  • Forward Deployed Engineer, SF Encord
  • Forward Deployed Engineer HackerRank
  • Customer Solutions Engineer Agave
  • GTM Engineering Intern Aviator

What the listing never says

  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

Description

VAST Data is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer for the Federal Team to join our growing team!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market." - Forbes



VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

Come join the disruption, make your mark, and be a part of the amazing team introducing the new era of data storage!

THE ROLE:

• Assist customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.

• Work closely with VAST R&D Engineering in helping to define product requirements and usability, including the creation of product specification documents.

• Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.

• Demonstrate technical leadership and subject matter expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces.

• Creation of architecture “blueprints” for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community.

• Help with the development of a dispersed group of system and field engineers.

• Assist with the recruiting and hiring and development of the Sales and Sales Engineering team.

• Consult on how to form and build and manage a Support organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations

• Positive energy, optimism and vision.

• Ability to perform in an unstructured environment.

• Understanding of classic unstructured data applications and next-generation analytics and web frameworks.

• Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers and trainees.

• Knowledge of virtualization, high-performance networking and enterprise security.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Originally posted on Himalayas

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 8 points (from 57 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.