Director of GPU Cluster Deployment

Nscale; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Director of Logical Deployment to own everything that turns powered racks into validated, customer-ready clusters. You will lead the network and software bring-up, manage asset data, and drive the end-to-end deployment playbook and automation for rapid site readiness.

You will build and lead a team of program managers, networking and validation specialists, and tooling leads, with a focus on schedules, governance, and executive reporting to accelerate time-to-first-Cluster.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in hyperscale infrastructure, cloud platforms or large-scale HPC delivery, including 5+ years leading teams.
• Direct experience delivering large GPU or HPC clusters, from network and platform bring-up through validation and customer acceptance.
• Strong working knowledge of data center networking, including front-end and back-end fabrics, InfiniBand or RoCE, and out-of-band and management networks.
• Strong working knowledge of infrastructure software, including provisioning, control planes, fleet management and asset systems such as NetBox.
• Track record of driving engineering teams you don't directly manage to firm commitments.
• Strength in building integrated schedules and critical paths across many dependencies, and in recovering them when they slip.
• Clear, concise executive communication, both in writing and in the room, with honest forecasts.
• Ability to travel about 50% of the time, primarily to data center sites.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated logical schedule for each cluster, from asset data lock to customer handoff.
• Maintain asset and inventory data in NetBox as the source of truth, locked before bring-up begins and kept accurate throughout.
• Drive connectivity readiness, including edge connectivity, out-of-band and management networks, and bootstrap connectivity for both Nscale and customer environments.
• Sequence service, control plane and fleet bring-up across engineering teams.
• Drive front-end and back-end fabric deployment to completion with the Networking and Build Out teams.
• Clear fabric, configuration and connectivity blockers quickly, and escape early when they threaten the schedule.
• Own GPU enrollment and validation, along with fleet manager ingestion and provisioning.
• Lead acceptance validation against customer criteria, closing defects with engineering and OEM partners.
• Prepare each cluster for handoff and transition it cleanly to ongoing operations, with complete documentation, runbooks and open-issue lists.
• Define the logical deployment playbook, including entry criteria from Physical Deployment, gates, checklists and standard timelines.
• Automate bring-up, validation and status reporting with the tooling team, so every cluster comes online faster than the last.
• Report weekly status and risks to the VP and senior leadership, clearly separating forecast from upside.
• Lead, hire and develop a team of engineering program managers, networking and validation specialists, and tooling and automation leads.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Networking

Infrastructure software

Scheduling & critical paths

Executive communication

Travel readiness

Tools

NetBox

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Director of Logical Deployment to own everything that turns powered racks into validated, customer-ready clusters. You will lead the network and software bring-up, manage asset data, and drive the end-to-end deployment playbook and automation for rapid site readiness.

You will build and lead a team of program managers, networking and validation specialists, and tooling leads, with a focus on schedules, governance, and executive reporting to accelerate time-to-first-Cluster.