Director of AI Infrastructure (AI)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; expected to work from the Seattle offices

Base salary: $176,400–$264,600 per year, plus bonus plans and long-term incentives.

Company

hirify.global is a Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute developing open-source AI research, large-scale models, data, robotics, and conservation technologies.

What you will do

• Oversee the availability, performance, and lifecycle of dense on-premises NVIDIA GPU clusters.
• Direct the strategy for Beaker and optimize workload scheduling across on-premises infrastructure and AWS/GCP cloud resources.
• Develop a long-term storage roadmap balancing high-throughput training workloads with durable, cost-effective petascale data storage.
• Manage GPU compute economics and make data-driven decisions about cloud bursting versus on-premises capacity investments.
• Partner with research teams and internal engineering groups to ensure infrastructure accelerates research rather than creating bottlenecks.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, or HPC, including at least 5 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; an advanced degree may substitute for equivalent technical experience.
• Direct experience managing large-scale NVIDIA GPU clusters and high-performance networking with InfiniBand or RoCE.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Slurm, or similar orchestration frameworks in hybrid-cloud environments.
• Experience with distributed filesystems such as WEKA, Ceph, or Lustre and cloud storage integration at scale.
• Proficiency in Go or Python and the ability to review architecture and code for internal tooling; U.S. work authorization is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, HSA, HRA, and flexible spending account options.
• 401(k) plan, annual bonuses, and participation in a long-term incentive plan.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, personal days, family leave, and twelve paid holidays.
• Learning opportunities through hirify.global Academy lectures, guest AI experts, and ongoing education support.
• Collaborative, transparent, inclusive environment with a focus on work-life balance.
• Monthly commuting or internet assistance and fitness and wellbeing reimbursement.