Director, Network & Compute Platform Engineering

Nscale; New York (NY); On-site; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

Nscale is building the GPU cloud engineered for AI, seeking a Director of Network & Compute Engineering to lead and scale our network and compute platforms. This role requires deep infrastructure expertise, cross-functional judgment, and the ability to balance long-term architecture with immediate business needs.

The position involves up to 50% travel to Nscale offices, data centers, partner locations, and customer sites.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading network, compute, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams.
• Experience operating within a large cloud provider, internet service provider, hyperscale data center, or similarly complex infrastructure environment.
• Experience leading network or compute operations teams responsible for business-critical production environments.
• Strong understanding of large-scale data center, cloud, network, or compute architecture.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing engineering organization responsible for Nscale’s core network and compute platforms.
• Define and execute multi-quarter initiatives that improve deployment velocity, infrastructure reliability, network validation, platform quality, and operational scalability.
• Establish the technical strategy for data center networking, GPU fabrics, compute systems, platform services, and supporting automation.
• Partner with Product Management and engineering leaders to evolve the infrastructure platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term customer and business requirements.
• Turn ambiguous, high-impact challenges into clear execution plans.
• Drive alignment across teams working on complex, interdependent systems spanning networking, compute, internal platforms, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Network & Compute Engineering

Large-scale Infrastructure

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

InfiniBand / Ethernet RoCE

GPU fabrics

Job description

Nscale is building the GPU cloud engineered for AI, seeking a Director of Network & Compute Engineering to lead and scale our network and compute platforms. This role requires deep infrastructure expertise, cross-functional judgment, and the ability to balance long-term architecture with immediate business needs.

The position involves up to 50% travel to Nscale offices, data centers, partner locations, and customer sites.