Global Field CTO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Position Cornelis Networks as a leading technical authority within the AI, HPC, cloud, sovereign AI, and next-generation datacenter infrastructure sectors.

• Influence customer technology strategies and architectural choices by building trusted advisor relationships.

• Accelerate the adoption of Cornelis networking solutions through technical leadership, advocacy, and engagement with the ecosystem.

• Shape future product directions by engaging directly with customers, partners, and industry leaders.

• Strengthen strategic partnerships with hyperscalers, cloud providers, OEMs, research institutions, and key ecosystem partners.

• Increase market awareness and technical credibility for Cornelis Networks in the fast-evolving AI infrastructure landscape.

• Enhance technical knowledge and customer engagement effectiveness throughout the broader organization.

• Act as a senior technical representative for Cornelis Networks during customer meetings, industry conferences, analyst briefings, webinars, podcasts, and ecosystem events.

• Create and present engaging presentations, demonstrations, technical papers, blogs, and thought leadership content that showcase the value of Cornelis networking solutions.

• Collaborate closely with strategic customers to grasp technical challenges, workloads, infrastructure needs, and long-term technology roadmaps.

• Lead advanced technical discussions with hyperscalers, next-generation cloud providers, OEM partners, research organizations, and enterprise customers.

• Work in tandem with sales, product management, and engineering teams to support strategic opportunities, proof-of-concept activities, pilot deployments, and customer success initiatives.

• Identify emerging market opportunities, technology shifts, competitive threats, and workload trends that can create new growth avenues for Cornelis Networks.

• Serve as a liaison between customers and internal product teams, ensuring that customer requirements and market feedback shape future product directions.

• Provide insights on technology strategy, product roadmaps, performance priorities, architectural choices, and competitive positioning.

• Assist in validating next-generation networking architectures and identifying future requirements for AI training, large-scale inference, and hyperscale infrastructure deployments.

• Mentor and empower field teams on technical positioning, competitive differentiation, customer engagement, and industry trends.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of experience in networking, datacenter infrastructure, semiconductors, AI, HPC, cloud infrastructure, or related technology sectors.

• In-depth understanding of distributed computing architectures, networking technologies, and large-scale AI or HPC environments.

• Strong expertise in Ethernet, InfiniBand, Ultra Ethernet, RDMA technologies, and modern scale-out networking architectures.

• Knowledge of AI training, large-scale inference, AI factory architectures, GPU clusters, accelerated computing, and emerging datacenter trends.

• Experience interacting with executive leadership, architects, engineering teams, researchers, and technical decision-makers within enterprise, cloud, research, and hyperscale organizations.

• Proven ability to transform intricate technical concepts into clear business and technology value.

• Experience delivering presentations at industry conferences, customer events, analyst briefings, technical forums, or public speaking engagements.

• Established capability to influence product strategy through direct customer engagement and market input.

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.

• Willingness to travel globally as necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package that includes equity, cash, and incentives.

• Health and retirement benefits.

• Generous paid holidays.

• 401(k) with company match.

• Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees.

• Sick time, bonding leave, and pregnancy disability leave.