VP of Product, Research and Training Infrastructure

📋 Description

• Lead product strategy for Research Training Stack and orchestration tools.
• Evolve SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) for deterministic bare-metal HPC.
• Drive training services and eval frameworks for model quality.
• Build RL/RLHF pipelines enabling efficient model refinement.
• Partner with global AI labs to translate research needs into roadmaps.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years engineering leadership experience.
• 5+ years managing large-scale infra at AI labs or cloud providers.
• Domain expertise: Slurm, Kubernetes, InfiniBand/RDMA for training.
• Research mindset: frontier model pre/post-training experience.
• Scaling: multi-thousand GPU clusters (H100/Blackwell/Rubin).
• Strategic vision for next-gen AI stack (RL loops, sandbox envs).

🎁 Benefits

• Hybrid work; remote options for eligible candidates.
• Onboarding at a hub within the first month; quarterly team gatherings.
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life.
• 401(k) with match; equity awards; ESPP.
• Tuition reimbursement; parental leave; flexible PTO.
• Casual, innovative culture focused on disruption.