Director of Engineering (Flex Compute)

• Own the curtailment orchestration and decision layer: grid-signal ingestion, staged shedding, per-SKU power capping without ever silently dropping a paid workload
• Land a utility-validated pilot: fast ramp to setpoint, tight accuracy, high-fidelity telemetry, and the test harness that proves it before we commit to a utility
• Deliver dynamic power management for oversubscription — more GPUs per megawatt with no customer-visible impact
• Build fast, workload-aware GPU power estimation, validated against fleet telemetry : the engine behind shed forecasting, oversubscription admission, and power planning for new silicon
• Design for safety: authenticated signal ingress, bounded blast radius, fail-safe defaults, manual backstops
• Own graceful ride-through of power-loss and grid-stress events, integrated with on-site battery and generation backstops
• Partner deeply with Data Center Engineering (mechanical, electrical, controls) and Energy teams on interconnection commitments, curtailment program design, and BESS/generation integration
• Integrate with our cloud control plane across Kubernetes and Slurm fleets : one control plane, not two
• Make build-vs-leverage calls across vendor power-management stacks and grid integration layers
• Hire and lead the team from the ground up, keeping headcount sublinear to fleet growth through automation

Benefits

• Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
• Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
• 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
• Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges- Working knowledge of data-center power systems: utility interconnection, switchgear/UPS/BESS, rack/PDU distribution, power telemetry, and GPU power management
• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ leading engineering teams, ideally taking a system from 0→1 to production scale
• A track record with safety-critical or physically-actuating systems, where a misfire has a bounded, designed-for worst case
• Experience with energy markets or grid programs demand response, curtailable-load tariffs, ISO/RTO market signals (e.g., ERCOT, PJM, CAISO) or demonstrated speed to fluency in them
• Deep experience with distributed control planes, orchestration, or fleet automation (e.g., Temporal, Kubernetes, Slurm)
• A record of hiring senior engineers and running healthy operations for systems that must never fail silently
• Strong build-vs-buy judgment and comfort deciding with incomplete data
• Prior work in the energy sector: power generation, storage, utility software, or grid-scale controls
• GPU cluster operations or AI cloud infrastructure experience
• Background in GPU power/performance modeling, DVFS, or turning research prototypes into production systems
• Experience with checkpoint/preemption for large training jobs or power-aware scheduling