Head of Datacenter Delivery

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States; relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Jose.

Company

hirify.global builds hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems focused on inference throughput and latency.

What you will do

• Translate product milestones, production ramps, and bring-up schedules into power forecasts, capacity plans, site requirements, and phased delivery plans.
• Build sourcing pipelines and relationships across GPU clouds, datacenter brokers and operators, developers, landlords, utilities, and equipment suppliers.
• Own site selection, diligence, preconstruction, power validation, budgets, permitting paths, and long-lead procurement.
• Challenge design assumptions and evaluate design modifications, repurposed facilities, and used or refurbished equipment while maintaining safety, reliability, and hardware requirements.
• Lead datacenter and lab delivery through construction, rack installation, integrated commissioning, operational handover, testing, documentation, and operator training.
• Build and lead the delivery team, coordinate with Legal and Finance on facility sale or transfer, and manage risks, schedules, budgets, contractors, and delivery partners.

Requirements

• Track record delivering large-scale datacenters or similarly complex, power-intensive facilities from site selection through commissioning and operational handover.
• Established network across the datacenter ecosystem and ability to turn relationships into site, power, and equipment opportunities.
• Strong technical judgment across power, cooling, networking, and construction, including design, equipment alternatives, and delivery timelines.
• Experience leading teams and managing construction budgets, contractors, and delivery partners against demanding schedules.
• Ability to understand a hardware roadmap deeply enough to anticipate infrastructure needs and adapt plans as requirements change.
• Hands-on and resourceful approach to challenging assumptions, finding practical alternatives, and driving execution across engineering, real estate, construction, and operations.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering high-density AI/HPC infrastructure, including liquid-cooled, rack-scale deployments.
• Experience developing turnkey infrastructure projects combining operational systems with underlying real estate or leases.
• Experience building hardware bring-up, validation, or production test labs.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei with strong emphasis on engineering skills and contributions across engineering and research.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous premium support, plus a $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,500 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for moves to San Jose, wellness benefits, and daily lunch and dinner at the office.
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.