Senior Manager, Cluster Engineering – Deployment

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the process that transforms delivered racks into approved clusters.

• Manage the cluster deployment playbook and guide its development, which includes staged bring-up, automated configuration push, link/optics validation, cabling verification against L1 port maps, and fault triage during deployment periods.

• Oversee deployment engineering across multiple concurrent cluster builds through team leads and on-site engineers.

• Collaborate daily with Data Center Integration field teams and cabling vendors.

• Enhance deployment efficiency by minimizing bring-up time through tooling, pre-staging, and eliminating sources of defects.

• Establish performance objectives for the team.

• Manage defect feedback processes to Network Engineering, Layer One, and vendors, ensuring partners are held accountable for resolutions.

• Specify requirements for spares, test equipment, and deployment tooling per site and standardize these across all sites.

• Oversee end-to-end cluster validation, which includes bandwidth/latency baselines, collective RCCL performance tests, burn-in criteria, and go/no-go acceptance criteria.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in network deployment, cluster/HPC bring-up, or large-scale infrastructure delivery, including managing engineers in a field/deployment environment.

• Proven hands-on fabric bring-up experience at scale (hundreds of switches/thousands of links per deployment).

• Strong operational discipline: creating and enforcing playbooks, gates, metrics, and blameless defect processes.

• Leadership skills with accountability for schedules across multiple concurrent builds or sites.

• Experience in GPU cluster validation (NCCL/RCCL benchmarking) is preferred.

• Automation expertise (Python, Ansible) applied to deployment is preferred.

• Depth in optics/link-layer debugging is preferred.

• Familiarity with acceptance testing as a commercial gate (linked to revenue) is preferred.

• Authorization to work in the United States is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock Options

• 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees

• Company Health Savings Account Contributions

• 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance for Employees

• Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance Options

• Additional Insurance Options, including Pet & Legal Insurance

• Various Supplementary Health Benefits, such as discounted Virtual Healthcare Appointments and Serious Illness Support

• Flexible Spending Account

• 401(k)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Flexible PTO

• Paid Holidays

• Parental Leave

• Additional In-Office Perks