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
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