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The Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering will lead the NXI team within the Strategic Customer Engineering organization. This role involves building and leading an organization of engineering managers and senior engineers to ensure the technical success of large AI infrastructure customers. You will guide customers through platform evaluation, cluster validation, workload onboarding, and production readiness for platforms like GB200, GB300, MI355, MI450, and Vera Rubin. Key responsibilities include translating customer requirements into tested solutions, resolving infrastructure stack issues, and establishing repeatable benchmarking and regression testing. You must possess technical depth in accelerated computing, Linux, high-performance networking, and distributed systems. The role requires expertise in NVIDIA CUDA or AMD ROCm ecosystems, RDMA networking, and storage performance to support large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
Build and lead an organization of engineering managers and senior infrastructure engineers.
Own technical onboarding from requirements discovery through platform bring-up and production readiness.
Lead customer validation of new accelerator platforms and OCI features using repeatable benchmarking.
Establish measurable acceptance criteria for workload throughput, scaling efficiency, and reliability.
Serve as the senior technical escalation leader for the customer portfolio and executive communications.
Translate customer findings into engineering requirements and roadmap priorities for product teams.
Build automation, diagnostics, and reference architectures to reduce manual effort and shorten production cycles.
What we're looking for
12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems, including cloud, AI, or high-performance computing infrastructure.
5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering managers and leading multiple technical teams.
Proven record of working directly with demanding customers to deploy, validate, and operate complex infrastructure at scale.
Technical depth in accelerated computing, Linux, high-performance networking, and distributed systems to evaluate architecture, performance, and reliability tradeoffs.
Demonstrated success leading technical delivery across organizational boundaries from early technology introduction through reliable production use.
Strong executive communication and technical judgment to explain risks and tradeoffs to customer leaders and make decisions under uncertainty.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with GPU/accelerator generations, RDMA networking, or AI model development (preferred).