Director, Site Reliability Engineering - AI Accelerator Infrastructure - Contract (AI)

Location: Santa Clara, United States; hybrid

Salary: $195,000–$285,000 per year, plus equity and bonus opportunities

Company

hirify.global designs and manufactures purpose-built AI inference silicon and develops the supporting software, hardware, QA, research, and infrastructure systems.

What you will do

• Build and lead the SRE function, including its charter, technical roadmap, team structure, and operational standards.
• Hire, develop, and retain a team of 3–5 SRE engineers while directing data center and lab technician operations.
• Establish SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident management, observability, and RCA practices from a zero baseline.
• Own reliability across colocation, on-premises lab clusters, AWS, Azure, GCP, and customer-facing platform services.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, self-healing automation, capacity planning, FinOps, and migration to enterprise shared storage.
• Partner with DevOps, hardware, software, and executive stakeholders on infrastructure reliability and HPC workload requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, plus 15+ years of SRE, infrastructure, or production engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading SRE or infrastructure engineering teams, including building or significantly rebuilding an SRE function.
• Deep Linux, TCP/IP, RDMA, bare-metal, enterprise storage, colocation, on-premises hardware, and Kubernetes experience.
• Production-scale Terraform and Ansible expertise, including module design, remote state, environment isolation, and change governance.
• Experience owning Prometheus, Grafana, and/or Datadog observability and writing production services or automation in Python and/or Go.
• Strong executive communication and the ability to create structure in a high-ambiguity, low-process environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with customer-facing infrastructure, InfiniBand, RoCE, NVLink, or HPC schedulers such as Slurm and LSF.
• Multi-cloud hybrid operations, FinOps, ITIL, technical writing, conference talks, or open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive culture centered on respect, humility, direct communication, and execution.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) and an inclusive rewards plan supporting employee wellbeing and dependents.
• Six-month contract with the possibility of conversion to a full-time role.