Head of Project Engineering (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Palo Alto, CA, United States; hybrid. Regular travel to sites and partner locations is required.

Salary: $225,000–$330,000 annually in California, plus equity and discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform that builds and operates large-scale GPU compute infrastructure for frontier AI customers.

What you will do

• Lead multiple project engineering teams delivering GPU compute deployments across sites from discovery through operational handover.
• Own technical feasibility, deal commitments, cost assumptions, deployment sequencing, and customer or investor technical due diligence.
• Establish delivery models covering facility handover, rack and stack, power-on, fabric build, burn-in, acceptance, and validation.
• Define completion criteria, performance validation, documentation, runbooks, monitoring coverage, and operational readiness.
• Build and manage the project engineering organization, including hiring, performance management, development, and succession planning.
• Manage OEMs, integration partners, colocation providers, field services, and managed services vendors while improving delivery repeatability and automation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data centers, infrastructure, or large-scale technical delivery, including at least 3 years leading multiple teams or through team leads.
• Track record delivering large-scale compute deployments where power, cooling, and logistics are significant constraints.
• Deep technical expertise in at least two of data center facilities and power/cooling, high-performance network fabrics, or compute and systems engineering.
• Experience with GPU cluster deployment, rack-scale systems, high-density power, liquid cooling, and acceptance validation for training workloads.
• Experience owning delivery against commercial commitments, managing concurrent projects with constrained specialist resources, and leading multi-vendor delivery.
• Strong commercial communication skills and willingness to travel regularly, including during critical delivery phases.

Nice to have

• Experience with NVIDIA reference architectures, rack-scale systems, certification, and validation.
• Direct liquid-cooling deployment experience, including CDU integration and facility demarcation.
• Background at a neocloud, hyperscaler, HPC center, or specialist data center integrator.
• Experience deploying in the Nordics or in sites with unusual power, climate, or grid characteristics.
• Experience with infrastructure due diligence, structured delivery frameworks, delivery automation, or AI-assisted planning and documentation workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, trusted environment focused on growth, impact, and work-life balance.
• Equity participation in hirify.global.
• Retirement or pension contributions.
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance.