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You will also bring a customer-focused perspective to the internal software and tooling we build to automate infrastructure deployment, ensuring our solutions meet the needs of the engineers and operators who use them.\nThis role requires strong technical judgment, business acumen, and the ability to make complex hardware and infrastructure decisions. You will evaluate trade-offs across performance, cost, reliability, and scalability, working with engineering teams, customers, and strategic partners to define and deliver competitive infrastructure products.\nWe are looking for someone who can operate across the entire problem: understand emerging hardware, engage deeply with engineers and customers, build a TCO model, develop a roadmap, create a compelling executive presentation, make a recommendation, and drive the organization to a decision.\nKey Responsibilities\nHardware Product Strategy & Delivery\nDefine and drive multi-generation GPU and compute hardware roadmaps, evaluating emerging technologies, customer requirements, market trends, and infrastructure economics.\nOwn hardware product definition, including requirements, reference architectures, configurations, performance targets, and lifecycle strategy.\nPartner with engineering, supply chain, OEMs, ODMs, and technology partners through NPI, qualification, production readiness, and deployment.\nDrive strategic decisions on platform architecture, component selection, standardization, supplier strategy, and OEM-to-ODM evolution.\nEnsure hardware requirements, BOMs, acceptance criteria, and deployment readiness are clearly defined and communicated across teams.\nCustomer & Strategic Partner Leadership\nEngage directly with sophisticated AI customers to understand workloads, technical requirements, performance priorities, and future infrastructure needs.\nBuild trusted relationships with strategic technology partners, including silicon providers, OEMs, and ODMs, aligning roadmaps, technical requirements, and joint development priorities.\nLead executive and technical discussions with customers and partners, communicating strategy, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly.\nDevelop customer-facing product documentation and presentations that explain Nscale's hardware platforms, capabilities, configurations, and roadmap.\nTranslate customer feedback and market intelligence into product requirements and strategic direction.\nDeployment Products & Building for Scale\nBring a customer mindset to internal deployment software and tooling, treating deployment engineers and operations teams as users whose workflows, requirements, and experience matter.\nPartner with software engineering teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and improve the usability and effectiveness of deployment automation.\nConnect hardware roadmap decisions to downstream deployment software requirements, readiness, and launch planning.\nConvert deployment and fleet learnings into reusable hardware standards, product improvements, tooling requirements, and roadmap decisions.\nBusiness Strategy & Decision Making\nDevelop TCO models, business cases, and financial analyses to evaluate hardware platforms, supplier alternatives, and architecture trade-offs.\nPartner with Commercial and Finance on product pricing, packaging, cost optimization, and long-term infrastructure economics.\nLead complex cross-functional decisions, balancing performance, cost, reliability, schedule, and customer requirements.\nCreate high-quality roadmaps, strategy documents, business cases, and executive presentations that turn technical complexity into clear recommendations.\nDrive alignment and decisions across engineering, operations, supply chain, commercial teams, customers, and executive leadership.\nQualifications & Requirements\nExperience: 8+ years in technical product management, hardware product management, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or related roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex hardware or infrastructure products.\nTechnical Depth: Strong understanding of server and data-center infrastructure, including compute, accelerators, networking, storage, hardware architecture, power, cooling, and platform lifecycle.\nProduct & Strategic Judgment: Proven ability to define products, build roadmaps, evaluate technical alternatives, and drive strategic decisions with incomplete information.\nBusiness Acumen: Experience with TCO modeling, financial analysis, product economics, pricing, or cost/performance optimization.\nCustomer & Partner Leadership: Demonstrated success building trusted relationships with technical customers and strategic partners, including leading executive-level discussions.\nSoftware Product Judgment: Ability to translate user needs into requirements, priorities, and improvements for internal software products and engineering tools.\nCommunication: Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical and business decisions to executive audiences.\nCross-Functional Leadership: Ability to influence engineering, supply chain, operations, finance, commercial teams, and external partners without direct authority.\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or 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Your work will directly influence Nscale's hardware strategy, infrastructure economics, customer experience, and ability to deploy AI infrastructure at scale.\nFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.\nNscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7285,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Centers & Colocation","AI Compute & Inference"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T18:19:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":63,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T07:24:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"search","counted_by":"address","units_charged":0,"used_today":0,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":null,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":48155},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=48155"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnscale-principal-technical-product-manager-hardware-ai-infrastructure"}]}