Director, Orchestration

Upscale AI; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Upscale AI is seeking a senior engineering leader to set the multi-year technical vision for our platform and prove it by building working prototypes.

You will be responsible for technology direction, hands-on coding, and cross-functional delivery with Product to ensure alignment with customer value. This role benchmarks against internal levels to maintain fairness and consistency.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform architecture and delivery.
• Ability to translate long-term vision into tangible prototypes.
• Strong coding skills and track record of shipping production-grade software.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year technical vision for the core platform.
• Perform competency analysis across architecture and systems.
• Build working prototypes to validate direction.
• Write production-grade code and drive delivery with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Platform architecture

Prototype development

Job description

Why join Upscale AI

Upscale AI is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $300M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical.Our team is talent-dense andhigh-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale AI is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

The role

You will set the multi-year technical vision for the platform — and prove it works by building it. This is not a strategy-only role. You perform competency analysis across the architecture, build working prototypes to validate direction, write production code, and lead cross-functional delivery. You are accountable to stakeholders for the quality and viability of what ships. You work hand-in-hand with Product to ensure the technical vision maps to customer value.

Where you fall within that range depends on your experience, skills, and impact—we benchmark against internal levels to keep things fair and consistent.

Equal Opportunity

Upscale AI is building a team that reflects a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

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