About Us

Since 1989, SHI International Corp. has helped organizations change the world through technology. We’ve grown every year since, and today we’re proud to be a $15 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.

 

Over 17,000 organizations worldwide rely on SHI’s concierge approach to help them solve what’s next. But the heartbeat of SHI is our employees – all 6,000 of them. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy:

• Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.

• Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.

• Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.

• World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive – in our offices or yours. 

Job Summary

The Associate AI Solutions Engineer plays a vital role in designing, developing, testing, and operationalizing AI solutions that support SHI’s customer engagements, AI Labs, and field enablement efforts. This position is perfect for emerging engineers who thrive in a collaborative environment and want to make meaningful contributions to AI infrastructure, workflows, and real-world solution development and engineering across various industries. You’ll join a high-impact team helping to expand SHI’s technological innovation through AGT’s AI lab operations, solution development, field support, internal tools, and AI GTM readiness.

Role Description

• Contribute to the engineering and deployment of AI offerings, including RAG pipelines, fine-tuning platforms (FTaaS), and NVIDIA NIM-based workflows.

• Co-develop and refine solutions around synthetic data pipelines, multimodal inference, and Vision AI integrations.

• Maintain, update, and operationalize the AI Lab environment and physical infrastructure in support of AGT initiatives.

• Assist in testing, labeling, and validating new hardware/software configurations for lab readiness.

• Prepare and support weekly AI Experience Tours (partner and customer-facing) by ensuring technical readiness and field solution alignment.

• Build and maintain AI demo environments and customer-facing reference architectures.

• Assist with partner integrations across ecosystem platforms such as NVIDIA, HPE, Microsoft, and others.

• Contribute to documentation and technical integration for joint offerings and strategic alliances.

• Participate in exploratory projects including Robotics & Physical AI, digital twins, and edge-AI frameworks.

• Bring new technical perspectives and fresh ideas to prototype solutions and internal R&D efforts.

Behaviors and Competencies

• Presenting: Can prepare and deliver presentations, addressing key points and responding to questions with clarity.

• Negotiation: Can proactively seek out negotiation opportunities, initiate discussions, and contribute to conflict resolution.

• Communication: Can effectively communicate complex ideas and information, and can adapt communication style to the audience.

• Detail-Oriented: Can identify errors or inconsistencies in work and make necessary corrections.

• Organization: Can prioritize daily tasks, manage personal workflow, and utilize basic tools to keep track of responsibilities.

• Follow-Up: Can independently track and follow up on tasks without requiring reminders, ensuring responsibilities are fulfilled.

• Problem-Solving: Can identify problems, propose solutions, and take action to resolve them without explicit instructions.

• Relationship Building: Can identify opportunities for collaboration, propose strategies for effective communication, and build relationships without explicit instructions.

• Documentation: Can independently create and update documentation, ensuring accuracy and consistency, and can identify gaps or areas needing clarification.

• Results Orientation: Can set challenging goals for their team and lead them to achieve these goals, demonstrating a consistent track record of results.

Skill Level Requirements

• Experience working in complex Data Center sales opportunities - Intermediate

• Ability to design data center infrastructures that include hybrid cloud, hyper converged, software-defined data center (SDDC), infrastructure/platform as a service, automation, containerization, and Data Center Management Platforms - Intermediate

• Strong knowledge of Virtualization technologies, Hypervisors, server virtualization, Software Defined Data Center, containerization, and automation - Basic

• Ability to effectively communicate and sell complex technical products or services by understanding customer needs, articulating the value proposition, and providing technical expertise to support the sales process - Intermediate

• Expertise in mainstream technologies to include: Dell Technologies, NetApp, HPE, Cisco, Pure Storage, Azure, AWS, Veeam, Nutanix - Intermediate

• Experience with Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and High Availability Solutions (backup/recovery, data protection, mirroring, active/standby, active/active, clustering) - Intermediate

Other Requirements

• Completed Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience required

• 2-4 years of experience in a similar role

• Ability to travel to SHI, Partner, and Customer Events

• Advanced certification in one or more of the following mainstream technologies preferred:

• Dell Technologies, Cisco, VMware, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, Azure, AWS, Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, Nutanix 

The estimated annual pay range for this position is $60,000.00 - $90,000.00 which includes a base salary. The compensation for this position is dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location and, therefore, will vary from individual to individual. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending.

Equal Employment Opportunity – M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status