Strategic Hardware Partnerships (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States; on-site

Salary: $300,000–$350,000 plus equity

Company

hirify.global is building a multi-silicon neocloud and execution platform for fast, efficient AI inference across heterogeneous hardware.

What you will do

• Develop and execute strategies for established silicon providers and emerging accelerator companies based on workload needs, performance, supply, economics, and scale.
• Own major partner relationships and programs from technical evaluation and proof of concept through commercial agreements, deployment, and production scale.
• Lead cross-functional programs across Engineering, GTM, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Infrastructure, and PMO.
• Define technical evaluation success criteria, translate POC results into deployment decisions, and resolve operational risks and escalations.
• Develop and negotiate pricing, financing structures, capacity commitments, roadmap alignment, and other commercial agreements.
• Connect partner capabilities to customer demand, offtake, joint go-to-market opportunities, hardware supply, and infrastructure deployment.

Requirements

• Track record of owning complex partnerships or programs and delivering results through hands-on execution.
• Strong commercial judgment, including negotiation across economics, financing, capacity, and risk.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders without relying on reporting lines.
• Technical fluency in silicon, accelerators, AI workloads, infrastructure, and related tradeoffs.
• Ability to work between long-term partner strategy and the details of POCs, agreements, supply, and deployment.
• Clear communication, practical problem-solving, sound judgment, ownership, and relationship-building skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with silicon providers, accelerator companies, hardware ecosystems, or AI infrastructure.
• Experience taking partner programs from evaluation or POC into deployment and production scale.
• Experience structuring hardware or capacity agreements, financing arrangements, or complex commercial transactions.
• Experience connecting hardware partnerships to customer demand, offtake, or joint go-to-market activity.
• Experience across hardware supply chains, cloud infrastructure, and technical integration in a growing company.

Culture & Benefits

• Operator-first role with significant ownership of complex partner outcomes.
• Opportunity to solve difficult problems in production AI infrastructure and emerging hardware.
• Work across frontier models, large-scale compute, production infrastructure, and new data centers.
• Compensation includes equity.