Compute Lead (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; onsite five days a week

Salary: $200,000–$400,000 per year, plus equity and competitive benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an AI interpretability research lab building interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.

What you will do

• Manage compute allocations across model training, research, and customer workloads.
• Source and secure compute capacity by comparing provider availability and pricing and managing deals through contracting and delivery.
• Define cluster acceptance criteria and run burn-in and performance testing with the infrastructure team.
• Monitor live cluster health, node failures, downtime, utilization, and quota usage, driving fixes with providers.
• Partner with research and product teams to translate roadmaps into compute requirements and prevent infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Build forecasting models for compute demand, long-term planning, and budgeting.

Requirements

• Experience navigating GPU scarcity, provider negotiations, and compute capacity decisions.
• Strong judgment when balancing competing demands and making high-stakes resource allocation trade-offs.
• Ability to work across infrastructure, operations, research, and product functions.
• Willingness to work onsite in the San Francisco office five days per week.
• Ability to operate with urgency, ownership, initiative, and a focus on practical improvements.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission focused on making AI interpretability accessible and advancing safe, beneficial AI.
• High-intensity environment with an emphasis on taking action quickly.
• Values include putting the mission and team first, continuous improvement, and personal ownership.
• Market-competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
• Opportunity to work with a world-class team on AI interpretability research and infrastructure.