Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead

Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead - Amsterdam

You’ll be joining one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in Europe, building the large-scale GPU infrastructure behind the next generation of AI.

You’ll lead the EMEA Hardware Deployment Engineering team, owning major GPU and server deployments while staying hands-on with hardware bring-up, validation and complex troubleshooting.

You’ll have the opportunity to build and shape the function as it scales, growing the team, improving automation and supporting new data center launches across EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the EMEA Deployment Engineering team, owning 1:1s, performance, hiring, technical development and day to day engineering priorities
• Own capacity and resource planning across multiple data center deployments, ensuring the right engineers and technical expertise are available at each stage
• Lead hardware bring up, testing, validation and acceptance across new GPU, compute and storage infrastructure
• Support complex hardware, firmware and Linux troubleshooting, coordinating with R&D, Operations, ODMs and vendors to drive issues through to root cause
• Build repeatable deployment processes, checklists, testing standards and automation to improve the speed and predictability of future deployments
• Drive improvements from deployment findings back into hardware, firmware, tooling, factory processes and operational handover

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with server hardware, data center infrastructure, hyperscale environments and large-scale server fleet deployments
• Experience leading engineers, including people leadership, technical leadership, resource planning, capacity planning and multi-site deployments
• Hands-on Linux and server hardware troubleshooting, including CPU, memory, NVMe, PCIe, NICs, BMC, BIOS and firmware
• Experience with GPU/AI infrastructure, HPC environments, GPU servers and high-density compute deployments
• Strong root cause analysis (RCA), hardware validation, failure investigation, automated testing and fleet-level testing experience
• Experience working directly with OEMs, ODMs and server vendors, supporting hardware bring-up, deployment, commissioning and troubleshooting across data centers in EMEA