Head of AI/ML
Remote
Head of AI Infrastructure
Blue Signal Search · Cloud Infrastructure / AI Infrastructure · 10-50 employees · 📍 San Francisco Bay Area
First senior infrastructure hire at a stealth-stage neocloud startup, tasked with architecting and scaling a GPU-native cloud platform from early pilots to global enterprise production.
AI Maturity
building
Reports To
CTO
Why Role Exists
New position
Company Stage
startup
Source
linkedin
Key Responsibilities
- Design and scale elastic GPU cloud fabric from hundreds to thousands of accelerators for training and inference workloads
- Define compute, storage, and high-speed network architecture meeting global security and compliance requirements
- Own Kubernetes-based scheduling, multi-tenant isolation, and capacity planning for a global GPU fleet
- Lead enterprise customer architecture reviews, PoC deployments, and production onboarding
- Evaluate and negotiate vendor relationships across hardware, colocation, and networking
- Build, mentor, and lead a distributed team of infrastructure architects and SREs
- Serve as senior technical voice in executive, investor, and partnership contexts
Requirements
- 10+ years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems architecture with large GPU cluster experience
- Deep expertise in PCIe/NVLink topologies and high-performance networking (InfiniBand/RoCE)
- Production Kubernetes experience in GPU environments including virtualization and multi-tenant isolation
- Distributed storage architecture for AI workloads
- Proven customer-facing technical leadership (solution architecture or technical sales)
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation range disclosed
- ⚠ Company identity is fully confidential — limited ability to vet culture, investors, or runway
- ⚠ No previous posting history to assess role stability or leadership churn
- ⚠ Early-stage with only 'live pilots' — revenue and product-market fit unproven
- ⚠ Recruiter-mediated posting adds a layer of opacity
- ✓ Described as backed by 'prominent investors' with live customer pilots — not pre-revenue
- ✓ Explicit equity upside with early-stage entry point
- ✓ Greenfield architecture mandate — high creative and strategic latitude
- ✓ Clear first-mover infrastructure leadership role with immediate revenue impact
- ✓ Remote-first with no geographic restriction within the US
- ✓ Strong technical specificity in JD signals a sophisticated hiring team