VP, AI Infrastructure & HPC Platform Engineering

Designworks Talent; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Designworks Talent seeks a Vice President of AI Infrastructure Engineering in Bellevue, WA, for a senior leadership role overseeing the engineering organization that transforms data center hardware into reliable, production-ready compute infrastructure.

The role blends deep technical expertise with organizational leadership to scale AI/HPC infrastructure across servers, GPUs, Linux, networking, and automation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across infrastructure, software, systems, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing and developing technical teams.
• Proven experience building and operating large-scale data center, cloud, HPC, or AI infrastructure.
• Strong Linux, distributed systems, networking, and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the 15+ person team for data center infrastructure bring-up and production readiness.
• Own platform lifecycle from hardware install to automated provisioning and workload readiness.
• Build and scale automation for bare-metal provisioning and Linux deployment.
• Lead deployment of GPU clusters, Kubernetes environments, and distributed compute infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards for servers, GPUs, networking, storage, firmware.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Bash.
• Oversee integration with Redfish, IPMI, BMCs, PXE, MAAS, Ironic, Foreman.
• Partner with Network, Hardware/GPU, DC Ops, SRE, and Software teams.
• Establish automated testing, health checks, monitoring, validation processes.
• Improve deployment speed, reliability, scalability and operational efficiency.
• Build and develop a high-performing organization with scalable processes.

Skills

Infrastructure

Linux

Kubernetes

Automation

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

MAAS

Job description

Designworks Talent seeks a Vice President of AI Infrastructure Engineering in Bellevue, WA, for a senior leadership role overseeing the engineering organization that transforms data center hardware into reliable, production-ready compute infrastructure.

The role blends deep technical expertise with organizational leadership to scale AI/HPC infrastructure across servers, GPUs, Linux, networking, and automation.