Head of Platform Software (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Santa Clara, United States; Hybrid

Salary: $220K–$330K per year, plus equity and bonus

Company

hirify.global develops memory-centric AI inference technology spanning chips, software, and rack-scale systems.

What you will do

• Own node, rack, and cluster bring-up software, including discovery, provisioning, configuration, and readiness gating.
• Define versioned interfaces between the platform layer, fabric manager, runtime, and schedulers, including explicit state transitions and events.
• Own device and link discovery, health state, telemetry, diagnostics, fault detection, severity handling, and recovery hand-offs.
• Lead firmware, BMC, low-level platform integration, packaging, update flows, and fleet monitoring for deployed clusters.
• Build tooling and readiness workflows for stabilizing clusters and handing them off to production operations.
• Hire and lead the platform software team, setting technical direction, milestones, quality standards, and on-call ownership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of systems software experience, including substantial rack-scale, cluster-scale, or large server infrastructure experience.
• Experience taking a platform or infrastructure program from design through shipped software with defined milestones.
• Depth in several areas including hardware bring-up, device and firmware interfaces, BMC and out-of-band management, fleet management, and fault handling.
• Hands-on experience with BMC and out-of-band management standards including Redfish, OpenBMC, and PLDM, plus firmware update frameworks.
• Experience building and leading engineering teams, hiring, growing leaders, and managing cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong judgment in interface and contract design between systems layers.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with accelerator or GPU infrastructure, including taking new hardware from early silicon through first customer deployments.
• Experience with PCIe, NVLink-class, CXL, RDMA, InfiniBand, or Ethernet-based fabric software, including heterogeneous rack-scale designs.
• Experience with Kubernetes, device plugins, and cluster lifecycle tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture based on respect, humility, direct communication, and execution.
• Equity and bonus offered in addition to salary.
• Inclusive equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer.
• Applications must be submitted directly; external agency resumes and candidate submissions are not accepted.