Senior Manager, Cluster Engineering & Deployment (AI)

Location: Remote; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States

Company

TensorWave provides a secure, reliable cloud platform for delivering AI compute at scale.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the cluster deployment playbook, including staged bring-up, automated configuration, link and optics validation, cabling verification, and deployment fault triage.
• Lead deployment engineering across concurrent cluster builds through team leads and on-site engineers.
• Coordinate daily with Data Center Integration field teams and cabling vendors.
• Improve deployment velocity through tooling, pre-staging, and defect-source elimination.
• Manage defect feedback loops with Network Engineering, Layer One, and hardware and optics vendors.
• Define and standardize spares, test equipment, and deployment tooling requirements across sites.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in network deployment, cluster or HPC bring-up, or large-scale infrastructure delivery.
• Experience managing engineers in field or deployment environments and maintaining schedule accountability across multiple builds or sites.
• Hands-on fabric bring-up experience at scale, including hundreds of switches and thousands of links per deployment.
• Strong operational rigor in building and enforcing playbooks, gates, metrics, and blameless defect loops.
• Experience owning cluster validation end to end, including bandwidth and latency baselines, RCCL performance testing, burn-in criteria, and go/no-go acceptance gates.

Nice to have

• GPU cluster validation experience with NCCL or RCCL benchmarking.
• Automation experience with Python and Ansible.
• Advanced optics and link-layer debugging skills.
• Experience with acceptance testing as a commercial, revenue-linked gate.

Culture & Benefits

• Stock options.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
• Health Savings Account contributions and Flexible Spending Account access.
• Paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance options, and supplemental coverage.
• Flexible PTO, paid holidays, parental leave, and employee assistance programs.
• 401(k) and additional health and in-office benefits.