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The Deployment PMO turns signed contracts into live AI infrastructure, coordinating the many teams and partners involved in bringing large GPU clusters online.\nAbout the role\nAs Director of Logical Deployment, you own everything that turns powered racks into a working, validated, customer-ready cluster. Once hardware is energized, you lead the network and software bring-up that makes it compute. That covers asset and inventory data, bootstrap connectivity, fabric deployment, control plane and fleet bring-up, GPU enrollment, acceptance validation, and handoff to ongoing operations.\nYou will turn a complex chain of engineering dependencies into a predictable sequence the business can commit to, and hold engineering, networking and partner teams to it.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn logical bring-up\nOwn the integrated logical schedule for each cluster, from asset data lock to customer handoff.\nMaintain asset and inventory data in NetBox as the source of truth, locked before bring-up begins and kept accurate throughout.\nDrive connectivity readiness, including edge connectivity, out-of-band and management networks, and bootstrap connectivity for both Nscale and customer environments.\nSequence service, control plane and fleet bring-up across engineering teams.\nDeliver the network fabric\nDrive front-end and back-end fabric deployment to completion with the Networking and Build Out teams.\nClear fabric, configuration and connectivity blockers quickly, and escalate early when they threaten the schedule.\nValidate and hand off\nOwn GPU enrollment and validation, along with fleet manager ingestion and provisioning.\nLead acceptance validation against customer criteria, closing defects with engineering and OEM partners.\nPrepare each cluster for handoff and transition it cleanly to ongoing operations, with complete documentation, runbooks and open-issue lists.\nLead people and build the operating model\nLead, hire and develop a team of engineering program managers, networking and validation specialists, and tooling and automation leads.\nDefine the logical deployment playbook, including entry criteria from Physical Deployment, gates, checklists and standard timelines.\nAutomate bring-up, validation and status reporting with the tooling team, so every cluster comes online faster than the last.\nReport weekly status and risks to the VP and senior leadership, clearly separating forecast from upside.\nWhat success looks like in your first 6-12 months\nEvery active cluster has one integrated logical schedule, owned by a named lead and reviewed weekly.\nLogical milestones hit their committed dates, or slips are flagged at least two weeks ahead with a recovery plan.\nTime from rack energization to customer handoff shrinks with each cluster.\nAcceptance validation runs to a repeatable, documented standard on every site.\nClusters transition to ongoing operations with no open blockers.\nA documented logical deployment playbook and core bring-up automation are in use on every new site.\nThe Logical Deployment team is fully staffed, with clear ownership and a succession path.\nWhat you bring\n12+ years in hyperscale infrastructure, cloud platforms or large-scale HPC delivery, including 5+ years leading teams.\nDirect experience delivering large GPU or HPC clusters, from network and platform bring-up through validation and customer acceptance.\nStrong working knowledge of data center networking, including front-end and back-end fabrics, InfiniBand or RoCE, and out-of-band and management networks.\nStrong working knowledge of infrastructure software, including provisioning, control planes, fleet management and asset systems such as NetBox.\nA track record of driving engineering teams you don’t directly manage to firm commitments.\nStrength in building integrated schedules and critical paths across many dependencies, and in recovering them when they slip.\nClear, concise executive communication, both in writing and in the room, with honest forecasts.\nAbility to travel about 50% of the time, primarily to data center sites.\nHow you lead\nThis is a Director-level role. We are looking for a leader who owns outcomes rather than one who reports on them.\nDecisive: You call the real date, even when it’s unpopular, and pair it with a recovery plan. You make calls on incomplete information and stand behind them.\nAssertive with partners: You hold engineering, networking and partner teams to their commitments. When a dependency slips, you escalate early, directly and with evidence.\nAccountable: You own the outcome for every cluster in your scope. Rather than “waiting on engineering,” you explain what you are doing about it.\nSteady under pressure: You bring order to a failing bring-up and help your team think clearly when schedules collapse.\nCredible with executives: You brief SVPs and customers with a clear, honest position: what’s true, what’s at risk, and what you need from them.\nA builder of leaders: You hire strong engineers and program managers, give them real ownership, and grow them into leaders.\nTechnically deep: You can read a fabric design, a bring-up log or a validation report and know where the problem is. Status reports alone are not enough.\nPreferred qualifications\nHands-on experience with NVIDIA GB200/GB300 or Vera Rubin NVL72-class clusters, including NVLink, InfiniBand or Spectrum-X fabrics.\nExperience at a hyperscaler, neocloud or AI lab bringing 10K+ GPU clusters into production.\nFamiliarity with NVIDIA cluster validation and burn-in.\nExperience building automation for provisioning, validation or deployment reporting.\nA background in network engineering, SRE or infrastructure software.\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. 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