Network Team Lead: Scale Frontier AI Infrastructure

Fluidstack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 242,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack, based in New York, is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. We seek a network leader to guide the Network Team, shaping strategy and delivering end-to-end network programs across fabric generations and backbone expansion.

You will run design, deployment, and production rhythms, hire and grow engineers, and ensure the network moves as one. This role rewards rapid scale experience, a hands-on leadership style, and a bias for automation- and multi-site programs.

Qualifications

• You've led network engineering organizations through rapid scale.
• You've hired network engineers in a market where everyone is hiring them.
• You balance roadmap work and operations without letting either starve.
• Engineers you've led ship faster because of how you run the team.
• Bonus: AI and HPC networking. Multi-site programs. Vendor relationship ownership. Automation-first organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the network engineering team: hiring, growth, priorities, and delivery across design and operations.
• Own the network roadmap from fabric generations to backbone expansion, sequenced to the build plan.
• Run the operating rhythm between design, deployment, and production so the network org moves as one.
• Build the team ahead of demand: networks at this scale need engineers the market barely produces.

Skills

Network leadership

Hiring engineers

Roadmap & operations

Team building

Automation mindset

Job description

Fluidstack, based in New York, is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. We seek a network leader to guide the Network Team, shaping strategy and delivering end-to-end network programs across fabric generations and backbone expansion.

You will run design, deployment, and production rhythms, hire and grow engineers, and ensure the network moves as one. This role rewards rapid scale experience, a hands-on leadership style, and a bias for automation- and multi-site programs.