{"id":3664093,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-senior-validation-technical-program-manager-logical-deployment","title":"Senior Validation Technical Program Manager, Logical Deployment","company":{"id":48155,"name":"Nscale","domain":"nscale.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nscale","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.346,"repost_share":0.038,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States","Seattle, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"InfiniBand","optional":false},{"name":"NCCL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"SLURM","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T02:15:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T19:20:08Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Nscale and the Deployment PMO\nNscale builds and operates large-scale AI infrastructure, delivering GPU clusters for leading hyperscalers, AI labs and enterprises across North America, EMEA and APAC.\nThe 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\nThe Validation TPM owns the proof that a cluster is ready for the customer. You take the customer’s acceptance criteria and turn them into a test plan, run it at cluster scale, and deliver results that stand up to scrutiny. You track the state of validation for every cluster, from first test run to signed acceptance.\nYou come from software validation and test frameworks, not only program management. You go deep into any test, question outputs that look too good or too bad, and write the script yourself when that is the fastest way to unblock testing. You sit between engineering, OEM partners and the customer, and your results decide when a cluster is handed off.\nThis is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Logical Deployment. Expect to travel up to 50% of the time, primarily to data center sites.\nWhat you’ll do\nTurn acceptance criteria into tests\nTranslate each customer’s acceptance criteria into a clear test plan: what is run, at what scale, and with what pass thresholds.\nAgree the plan with the customer and engineering before testing starts, so there are no surprises at handoff.\nMap every acceptance criterion to the test result that proves it, and keep that traceability current.\nRun and own cluster validation\nDrive acceptance validation end to end: cluster-wide performance, interconnect, storage, stability and burn-in.\nTrack validation status for every cluster, with a clear view of what has passed, what has failed and what is blocked.\nCoordinate test windows with fabric, provisioning and OEM teams so validation runs without idle time.\nGo deep and unblock\nRead raw test output, not just summaries. Question results that don’t make sense and find the root cause.\nWrite or modify scripts when a test, harness or data collection step is missing or broken.\nTriage failures to the right owner (hardware, fabric, firmware, software or configuration) with evidence, and drive them to closure.\nRe-run and verify fixes before marking anything as passed.\nClose out with the customer\nProduce acceptance reports that tie results to criteria, explain exceptions plainly and support sign-off.\nBrief the customer and leadership on validation status, with an honest view of risk to the handoff date.\nFeed what you learn back into the validation playbook, test suites and automation, so each cluster validates faster than the last.\nWhat success looks like in your first 6-12 months\nEvery active cluster has a test plan mapped to its customer’s acceptance criteria, agreed before testing starts.\nValidation status is visible for every cluster without manual chasing.\nFailures are triaged to an owner with evidence within a day, and no cluster reaches handoff with an unexplained result.\nCustomers sign off on acceptance reports without rework.\nA reusable acceptance test suite and reporting automation are in use on every new cluster.\nWhat you bring\n7-10+ years in software validation, test engineering or QA for infrastructure or distributed systems, including program or project ownership.\nHands-on experience building and running test frameworks, and reading and debugging their output.\nStrong scripting in Python and Bash, and comfort modifying test harnesses and data pipelines.\nWorking knowledge of GPU cluster performance and validation, such as NCCL collectives, HPL, DCGM diagnostics and burn-in.\nFamiliarity with cluster networking and storage testing, including InfiniBand or RoCE bandwidth and latency, and storage throughput.\nExperience turning requirements or acceptance criteria into test plans with clear pass/fail evidence.\nClear, concise communication with engineers and customers, in writing and in the room.\nAbility to travel up to 50% of the time, primarily to data center sites.\nHow you work\nRigorous: You trust data, not dashboards. A pass needs evidence, and a strange number gets investigated, not explained away.\nBold: You call a cluster not ready when the results say so, even close to a handoff date, and you put a path to ready next to it.\nAssertive with partners: You hold engineering, OEM partners and vendors to fixing what the tests find. You escalate early, directly and with evidence.\nAccountable: You own validation outcomes. Rather than “waiting on engineering,” you explain what you are doing to unblock it.\nSteady under pressure: You keep testing moving when failures stack up and the handoff date is close.\nTechnically deep: You can read a test log, a performance trace or a script and know where the problem is.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience validating NVIDIA GB200/GB300 or Vera Rubin NVL72-class clusters, including NVIDIA cluster validation tooling.\nExperience with MLPerf or customer-defined training and inference benchmarks at scale.\nFamiliarity with Slurm or Kubernetes for scheduling large test jobs.\nExperience at a hyperscaler, neocloud or AI lab accepting 10K+ GPU clusters.\nBackground in CI/CD and test automation for infrastructure.\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 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