Head of Data Center Deployment
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 1, 2026.
About Us
General Compute is the neocloud for alternative chips.
Inference is fragmenting: purpose-built silicon from SambaNova, Cerebras, Positron, d-Matrix, and others already beats GPUs on decode, and we productionize that hardware - we buy the racks, find the data center space, and run it for our customers. Each piece of hardware runs the workload it's actually built for: prefill stays on GPUs, decode moves to the chip built for it, and today that means generating tokens 5-7× faster than existing GPU-based competitors. Our customers are frontier labs, fast-growing AI application companies, and asset-light clouds.
We closed a $15M seed round in May 2026, and have since closed a $400M debt facility - $100M funded upfront by Upper90, with the balance available for drawdown - collateralized by our inference chips.
About the role
General Compute is seeking a leader to own the physical build-out of our ASIC compute infrastructure - from delivered hardware to production-ready cluster, and everything it takes to keep it running once it's live.
What you'll do:
Cluster Deployment: Own hands-on deployment of ASIC compute clusters end-to-end: oversee hardware install, rack-and-stack, cabling, power-up, and commissioning through to production readiness.
Facility Engineering & Operations: Lead data-center engineering operations - power, cooling, and network infrastructure - for every site we bring online, and keep it running once it's live.
Deployment Program Ownership: Set and own deployment timelines and quality bar across sites. Commissioning, testing, and punch-list - you close it out.
Technical Partner to Site Sourcing: Translate cluster power density, cooling, and network requirements into technical specs for the team sourcing power and colocation capacity - you don't own the deal, but you own whether the site can actually run our hardware.
Vendor Management: Oversee relationships with hardware vendors, remote-hands providers, and commissioning contractors on the technical side of delivery.
Team Building: Build and lead the deployment and ops team as our physical footprint scales.
What we need from you:
Direct, hands-on experience deploying or commissioning GPU or ASIC compute infrastructure at scale - at a compute infrastructure company (CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nvidia, a hyperscaler, or similar) or as a senior data-center operations leader.
Track record leading data-center engineering and operations teams: commissioning, facility engineering, cluster bring-up, and steady-state reliability.
Technical fluency in power, cooling, and networking as they relate to high-density AI compute.
Comfortable being hands-on early - this is a builder role on a small team, not a steady-state operations seat.
Ability to move fast - "first cluster online in the next few months."
Direct communication style and willingness to do hands-on physical infrastructure work personally when needed.