Head of AI Infrastructure & Datacenter Automation

Mistral; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Retirement plan

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a founding-level leader to turn incoming hardware into scalable datacenter clusters. You will drive automation, provisioning, and the delivery pipeline while shaping the team from day one.

The role blends hardware and software, requiring hands-on Go coding and deep Linux expertise, plus a drive to build a strong engineering culture. Travel to datacenter sites will be required as we scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.
• At least 2 years of people leadership, hiring and coaching engineers.
• Deep Linux expertise and ability to work well below the application layer.
• Shipped production systems in Go.
• Willing to travel to datacenter sites.
• Hardware fluency: servers, GPUs, NICs, switches, firmware.

Responsibilities

• Build delivery pipeline in Go: provisioning, configuration, validation, burn-in, network bring-up.
• Build the team from scratch: hire, onboard and coach, own performance and growth paths.
• Own time-to-acceptance and relentlessly drive it down.
• Work with Hardware Design and Fleet Health to ensure reliability.
• Handle GPU fleets at scale: InfiniBand and RoCE fabrics, failure modes.
• Partner with Product Managers to plan delivery waves against capacity.

Skills

Go

Linux

People leadership

Backend systems

Job description

Mistral is seeking a founding-level leader to turn incoming hardware into scalable datacenter clusters. You will drive automation, provisioning, and the delivery pipeline while shaping the team from day one.

The role blends hardware and software, requiring hands-on Go coding and deep Linux expertise, plus a drive to build a strong engineering culture. Travel to datacenter sites will be required as we scale.