Technical Staff-Storage Architect

Technical Staff - Storage Architect From applied research to advanced engineering, the ISG CTO Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking products, material and processes. It’s a fascinating field of work. We’re involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies and generating intellectual property. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities and recommend potential acquisitions or vendor partner opportunities.

Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff-Storage Architect on our Engineering Technologist Team in Santa Clara, California or Austin, Texas.

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As a Technical Staff, Platform Architect, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the architecture of next generation large scale Enterprise AI Infrastructure including AI workflow design, model evaluations and SW stacks for accelerated compute, AI fabrics and AI optimized storage. In addition to AI IT technologies, this role will leverage state-of-the-art rack and data center power solutions and innovative liquid cooling technologies.

strategies utilizing information from CTO, marketing, development, manufacturing, procurement, customers and industry

As a Technical Staff, Platform Architect, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the architecture of next generation large scale AI Infrastructure including accelerated compute, AI fabrics and AI optimized storage. In addition to AI IT technologies, this role will leverage state-of-the-art rack and data center power solutions and innovative liquid cooling technologies. strategies utilizing information from CTO, marketing, development, manufacturing, procurement, customers and industry

Serve as the technical leader interfacing with enterprise customers to define architectures, understand workload requirements, and translate them into comprehensive solution designs. Lead investigations new fabric technologies, and storage platforms to support large‑scale AI deployments. Develop and propose solution configurations, BOMs, and SKUs based on customer needs in collaboration with Engineering.
Architect AI-optimized storage and data management solutions integrating optimized, scale-out file, object, and parallel file system SDS technologies.‑optimized storage and data management solutions integrating scale‑out file, object, and parallel file system technologies.
Influence end-to-end AI infrastructure stacks—from software frameworks through compute, storage, networking, data security, and datacenter deployment (L10–L12).‑to‑end AI infrastructure stacks—from software frameworks through compute, storage, networking, data security, and datacenter deployment (L10–L12).
Engage with strategic technology partners to co-innovate and build differentiated solutions and influence multi-year technology and product roadmaps with inputs from engineering, manufacturing, procurement, customers, and the broader industry.
10+ years of experience in storage architecture, data platforms, or large-scale distributed systems including expertise in scale-out file/object storage, parallel file systems, and key storage concepts (NFS/S3, erasure coding, deduplication, encryption, tiering, backup, versioning).
~ Deep understanding of AI/ML workflows, data pipelines, training/inference patterns, and enterprise cluster deployments along with proven ability to collaborate with ISVs on data management and AI workflow integration.
~ Strong ability to define storage configurations to meet production grade performance and SLA requirements.‑grade performance and SLA requirements.
~ willingness to travel 20–30%.

Masters, PhD or Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience,
Knowledge of AI/ML or HPC performance engineering, including benchmarking and scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) on Linux. Hands-on experience with datacenter technologies, including fabrics, cooling, telemetry, or cluster orchestration.

Supported by your benefits. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we’re looking for you.
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