Director, Deployment Engineering — Systems Engineering

The role Nscale is looking for a Director of Deployment Engineering to lead the systems engineering function responsible for deploying, validating, and operating the core compute platforms that underpin our AI infrastructure. You will lead a high-performing engineering team across systems, compute operations, and deployment validation. This role combines technical leadership with operational execution: defining the standards, tooling, and processes that ensure infrastructure is reliable, scalable, production-ready, and delivered at pace. What you’ll do - Lead and scale the systems engineering team responsible for core platform systems, deployment readiness, and compute operations. - Define and deliver multi-quarter systems engineering initiatives that improve deployment velocity, platform reliability, validation quality, and operational performance. - Establish systems validation standards for servers, GPUs, networking, storage, and supporting infrastructure before production acceptance. - Lead GPU burn-in and validation testing at scale, including thermal, power, stress, and performance qualification. - Partner with infrastructure, network engineering, deployment, product, and operations leaders to balance long-term platform architecture with immediate business needs. - Turn ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges into clear plans, priorities, milestones, and accountable execution. - Drive alignment across interdependent teams working on compute platforms, internal infrastructure, developer tooling, and operational systems. - Raise the bar for engineering quality, automation, observability, documentation, and operational excellence. - Build scalable approaches for systems monitoring, telemetry, incident learning, and continuous platform improvement. - Travel up to 50% to support deployments, site readiness, vendor collaboration, and operational execution. What you’ll bring - A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 10+ years of systems engineering, compute operations, infrastructure, or engineering-management experience. - Experience in a large cloud provider, hyperscale data center, or similarly complex infrastructure environment. - Experience leading systems or compute operations teams in a high-availability production environment. - Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration, OS-level tuning, server architecture, and GPU hardware. - Experience with virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems, including Kubernetes and Docker. - Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef. - Strong scripting, automation, and data center systems-design experience. - Familiarity with system architecture, data synchronization, fault tolerance, state management, and distributed-system reliability. - Experience with enterprise storage, networking, compute, monitoring, observability, or telemetry platforms. - Excellent judgment, organizational skills, and written and verbal communication. - The ability to influence technical direction, engineering priorities, and cross-functional decisions. What success looks like - Nscale’s compute platforms are consistently deployed, validated, and accepted into production at a high standard. - Systems engineering has clear technical standards, automation, and operational ownership across the deployment lifecycle. - Platform reliability, validation quality, and delivery velocity improve measurably over time. - Engineering, operations, and deployment teams make faster decisions with clearer data and accountability. The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation. Salary Range $240,000—$353,000 USD For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here. Nscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.