Head of Global Compute Supply & Platform Strategy
$250,000–$450,000 year
Hybrid · Redwood City, California, United States
Job Summary
Architect Multi-Year Compute Strategy: Lead capacity planning, global vendor and cloud partnerships, on-prem vs. cloud mix, and accelerator supply chain roadmaps (H/B-series GPUs, custom silicon evaluation). Direct the Platform Org: Provide strategic leadership to infrastructure, distributed systems, and datacenter operations teams—scaling the organization to support next-generation compute demands. Maximize Fleet Utilization: Oversee the architectural efficiency of cluster configurations to deliver >50% MFU on flagship training runs. Command a Megawatt Budget: Negotiate, secure, and operate large-scale capital deployments for compute infrastructure, partnering with Finance to optimize unit economics and risk management. Unify Global Capacity: Champion the platform strategy enabling world-model training, heavy simulation rollouts, and real-time on-robot inference to share a single elastic fleet. Act as Principal Executive Interface: Serve as the primary commercial and strategic bridge to NVIDIA, AMD, hyperscalers, and frontier silicon vendors.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience in large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure, or technical supply chain, with a proven track record of leading compute platform strategy at a frontier AI lab, hyperscaler, or major autonomy program.
- Deep technical & commercial fluency in high-performance cluster topology, high-speed interconnects (InfiniBand/RoCE), large-scale data systems, and the economics of distributed training architectures.
- Direct operational oversight of 10k+ accelerator environments in high-performance production settings.
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