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Pre-Sales System Engineer, Air Force (VA/MD/DC)
Pure Storage INC · 🇺🇸 Remote, Maryland; Remote, Virginia; Remote, Washington D.C. · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 47 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Mar 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 67 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Pure Storage INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Hardware System Design Engineer” (Computer Hardware Engineers) in CA: $177k–$191k, median $184k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 47 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Mar 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 67 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer supporting U.S. Air Force and federal defense customers, you will help translate mission and technology requirements into innovative data-storage solutions. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales process, partnering with account managers, specialists, channel partners, and customers to demonstrate how the Everpure portfolio can deliver secure, scalable, and measurable business outcomes. WHAT YOU’LL DO • Build a deep understanding of U.S. Air Force and federal customers’ missions, priorities, technical environments, and decision criteria. • Connect Everpure solutions and ecosystem technologies to customer outcomes across enterprise storage, distributed architectures, file systems, cloud, and modernization initiatives. • Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to shape account strategy, create a seamless customer experience, and drive revenue growth and net-new business. • Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations, translating customer requirements into compelling solution designs. • Develop and deliver clear, persuasive technical presentations and architecture discussions that establish the technical win with customers and prospective accounts. • Provide technical leadership on storage products and competitive offerings across DAS, NAS, SAN, FC, iSCSI, and software-defined or distributed storage environments. • Capture customer requirements and identify opportunities for interoperability, functional testing, performance validation, roadmap alignment, and joint planning. • Contribute to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses, and collaborate with product and technical marketing on customer-facing materials and differentiated solution positioning. • Stay current on market trends, competitors, cloud-native architectures, and emerging technologies to promote technical thought leadership. • Lead by example through Everpure’s values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Customer-first. WHAT YOU BRING • Demonstrated pre-sales experience supporting enterprise technology customers. • Five or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, technical communications, or a related field. • Experience supporting the sale of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise or federal customers. • Experience supporting U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, or other federal customers preferred. • Strong understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing architectures, including scale-out and scale-up environments. • Knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures, on-premises and public-cloud environments, provisioning automation, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices. • Experience with storage architectures and protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS, object or software-defined storage, and SAN. • Working knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, distributed computing environments, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking. • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with storage-intensive applications such as SQL and Oracle databases. • Ability to lead t