Global Field CTO

TL;DR

Global Field CTO (AI/HPC Networking): Establishing hirify.global as a recognized technical leader and trusted advisor across AI, HPC, cloud, and next-generation datacenter infrastructure with an accent on influencing customer technology strategies, shaping product direction through market feedback, and representing the company at executive and industry levels. Focus on translating complex networking and distributed computing concepts into business value while driving adoption through ecosystem engagement, technical spokesperson activities, and advanced customer engagements.

Location: Remote (North America or Europe); San Francisco, California

Company

hirify.global delivers high-performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters.

What you will do

• Serve as a highly visible technical leader and trusted advisor across customers, partners, and the AI infrastructure ecosystem.
• Influence customer technology strategies and architecture decisions through trusted relationships.
• Accelerate adoption via technical leadership, advocacy, ecosystem engagement, and support for proof-of-concept and pilot deployments.
• Shape future product direction by directly engaging customers and partners and feeding requirements and market feedback into internal product teams.
• Represent hirify.global through executive-level customer meetings, conferences, analyst briefings, webinars, podcasts, and ecosystem events.
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, technical papers, blogs, and thought leadership content.

Requirements

• Experience: 15+ years in networking, datacenter infrastructure, semiconductors, AI, HPC, cloud infrastructure, or related technology markets.
• Deep understanding of distributed computing architectures and large-scale AI or HPC environments.
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet, InfiniBand, Ultra Ethernet, and RDMA technologies and modern scale-out networking architectures.
• Ability to engage executive leadership, architects, engineers, researchers, and technical decision makers across enterprise, cloud, research, and hyperscale organizations.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business and technology value.
• Ability to travel globally as required.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI training infrastructure, large-scale inference environments, AI factories, or sovereign AI initiatives.
• Prior experience with Ultra Ethernet, InfiniBand, RoCE, HPC interconnects, or large-scale distributed AI systems.
• Existing relationships across hyperscalers, cloud providers, OEMs, research institutions, government laboratories, and AI infrastructure ecosystem partners.
• Experience working in high-growth technology companies bringing new infrastructure technologies to market.
• Recognized industry thought leader with experience publishing technical content and speaking at conferences.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including equity, cash, and incentives.
• Health and retirement benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) with company match and generous paid holidays.
• Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees plus sick time and additional paid leave options.
• Flexible work environment with onsite, hybrid, and fully remote roles across the organization.

Hiring process

• Interviews focused on technical leadership, customer-facing communication, and ability to influence product strategy through market feedback.
• Discussions with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders (product, engineering, and strategic customers/partners).