Director of Integrations Engineering - Hybrid, Global Impact

Penguin Solutions; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Plan

Job summary

Penguin Solutions in Durham, NC seeks a Director, Integrations Engineering to lead a distributed team responsible for validating technology integrations and delivering production-ready AI Factory solutions. The role blends technical leadership with customer engagement and cross-functional execution.

The ideal candidate will translate complex requirements into repeatable architectures, work with Product, Software, Hardware, and Services, and drive automation and best practices across the org.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software, systems, infra, or integration engineering.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership.
• Experience with AI/HPC infra, GPU clusters.
• Customer-facing technical engagements and complex integrations.
• Turn customer requirements into scalable, repeatable solutions.
• Proven success leading distributed teams and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery, qualification, PoCs and deployment readiness for AI Factory environments.
• Drive end-to-end integration and validation across GPU/HPC infra, Kubernetes, and networking.
• Partner with Product, Software, Hardware, Services, and partners to validate reference architectures.
• Transform prototypes into repeatable architectures, runbooks, and guidance.
• Translate field insights into product and engineering improvements.
• Build and lead a globally distributed engineering team with clear priorities.
• Provide executive visibility into delivery commitments, risks, and outcomes.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted engineering with strong docs practices.

Skills

Leadership experience

Executive communication

Customer-facing engagements

Distributed teams

Kubernetes

CI/CD / IaC

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

NVIDIA technologies

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Penguin Solutions in Durham, NC seeks a Director, Integrations Engineering to lead a distributed team responsible for validating technology integrations and delivering production-ready AI Factory solutions. The role blends technical leadership with customer engagement and cross-functional execution.

The ideal candidate will translate complex requirements into repeatable architectures, work with Product, Software, Hardware, and Services, and drive automation and best practices across the org.