Field CTO - AI Infrastructure & GPU Cloud

Weka; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Frequent travel across North America

Industry events participation

Job summary

WEKA is seeking a Field CTO for AI Infrastructure in the Americas, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will engage with customers and partners building the largest GPU environments, influence architecture decisions, and translate requirements into reference architectures on WEKA NeuralMesh.

You will collaborate with product and engineering, represent WEKA at industry events, and act as a technical evangelist for AI infrastructure and neocloud architectures across North America.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of technical experience in relevant industries.
• Proven experience architecting large-scale AI infrastructure environments with GPU compute, high-performance storage, and networking.
• Hands-on experience in a senior technical role inside a neocloud, NVIDIA Cloud Partner, GPU-as-a-service provider, or hyperscaler AI platform.
• Deep understanding of multi-tenant GPU cloud architecture: tenant isolation, scheduling/orchestration, high-performance networking, and data layer for GPU utilization.
• Proven track record deploying and utilizing multiple AI frameworks for training and inference.
• Domain expertise in adjacent verticals such as EDA, life sciences, media/entertainment, or financial services is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience as a technical evangelist including public speaking and customer workshops.
• Ability to translate technical terms into business value for neocloud/AI cloud providers and enterprises.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and credibility with CIOs and principal engineers.
• Willingness to travel frequently across North America.
• Collaborative, results-oriented mindset and passion for staying ahead of technology.

Responsibilities

• Connect WEKA's neocloud and AI infrastructure customers across the Americas with the broader WEKA team.
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, demos, and workshops showcasing WEKA's value for AI training, inference, and multi-tenant GPU workloads.
• Advise GTM teams and customers on architectural and economic challenges of GPU infrastructure at scale.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing to align customer needs with roadmap and advocate for field input.
• Provide advisory services with presales and post-sales teams to drive outcomes.
• Oversee large, complex engagements across the region as appropriate.
• Champion innovation and stay current on GPU, networking, inference-serving, and agentic AI technologies.
• Cultivate partnerships with NVIDIA, NCP ecosystem, hyperscalers, and other vendors to expand WEKA's reach.
• Represent WEKA at industry events and conferences to establish thought leadership in AI infrastructure and neocloud.

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

InfiniBand/RoCE

NVIDIA Cloud Partner

Job description

WEKA is seeking a Field CTO for AI Infrastructure in the Americas, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will engage with customers and partners building the largest GPU environments, influence architecture decisions, and translate requirements into reference architectures on WEKA NeuralMesh.

You will collaborate with product and engineering, represent WEKA at industry events, and act as a technical evangelist for AI infrastructure and neocloud architectures across North America.