Strategic Technical Account Manager GPU
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Apr 16, 2026. Vultr scores B on the Alion truth index.
Who We Are
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
Vultr Cares
100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
$500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
Company paid Wellable subscription
Join Vultr
The GPU-focused Technical Account Manager (TAM) leads the post-sales technical success of customers deploying large-scale AI, training, inference, and high-performance GPU workloads on the company’s platform. This includes customers using NVIDIA GPU clusters, AMD GPU clusters, GPU VMs, and rack-scale bare-metal environments.
You will act as a trusted advisor across LLM training, fine-tuning, RAG workloads, distributed training frameworks, storage throughput requirements, multi-GPU scaling, and performance tuning. This role requires deep technical fluency and exceptional customer management skills to help AI/ML teams achieve predictable, cost-efficient, high-performance outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
AI/GPU Onboarding & Workload Architecture
Lead onboarding for customers deploying GPU clusters (bare metal, VMs, or hybrid).
Advise on cluster design: multi-GPU topology, NVLink/NVSwitch considerations, RDMA, Infiniband and RoCE Ethernet, networking throughput, and storage IOPS requirements.
Guide customers in selecting GPU types and configurations based on workload (training, fine-tuning, inference, embeddings, RAG pipelines).
Support distributed frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, DeepSpeed, Megatron, JAX, Ray, Mosaic, HuggingFace, etc.
Advanced hands on Kubernetes skills
Advanced hands on SLURM skills
Performance Optimization & Scaling
Identify bottlenecks (network, storage, memory bandwidth).
Provide tuning recommendations for batch size, mixed precision, parallelization strategies, and checkpointing.
Help customers evaluate cost vs. performance tradeoffs (GPU mix, CPU pairing, instance types, cluster sizing).
Technical Relationship Ownership
Own the long-term technical strategy across assigned GPU/AI accounts, including hyperscalers, labs, and high-growth AI startups.
Host recurring technical review meetings, roadmap reviews, and optimization sessions.
Define scaling plans, future GPU reservation needs, and capacity forecasting.
Incident & Escalation Management
Partner with Support, SRE, Networking, NOC, and Product Management & Engineering to resolve high-urgency incidents.
Manage outage communications, corrective action plans, and postmortem reviews with customers.
Advocate for GPU reliability improvements and influence roadmap priorities.
Account Growth & Expansion
Identify opportunities for expanded clusters, high speed storage, or networking upgrades.
Support Sales with technical validation and architecture diagrams needed for expansion.
Customer Advocacy & Product Feedback
Provide structured feedback on existing and future GPU offerings, networking fabrics, storage platforms, and upcoming AI/ML platform features.
Partner with Product on early access programs (new GPUs, pipelines, orchestration, etc.).
Qualifications
2-5+ years as an AI/ML Engineer, AI/ML Ops, Technical Account Manager, HPC Engineer, Sales/Solutions Engineer or relevant technical role.
Strong knowledge of GPU hardware architectures (NVIDIA/AMD), CUDA/ROCm, distributed training, and ML frameworks.
Experience with Linux tuning, networking (Infiniband, RoCE fabrics).
Experience with high-performance storage systems (DDN, NetApp, Vast, Weka, etc.).
Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to both executives and engineering teams.
Prior experience supporting hyperscale, AI labs, or large cluster deployments is a plus.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is a plus.
Compensation
$115,000 - $140,000
This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.
Inclusion & Privacy
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