Director, Deployment Engineering — Systems Engineering

About the role

The role Nscale is looking for a Director of Deployment Engineering to lead the systems engineering function responsible for deploying, validating, and operating the core compute platforms that underpin our AI infrastructure. You will lead a high-performing engineering team across systems, compute operations, and deployment validation. This role combines technical leadership with operational execution: defining the standards, tooling, and processes that ensure infrastructure is reliable, scalable, production-ready, and delivered at pace.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the systems engineering team responsible for core platform systems, deployment readiness, and compute operations.
• Define and deliver multi-quarter systems engineering initiatives that improve deployment velocity, platform reliability, validation quality, and operational performance.
• Establish systems validation standards for servers, GPUs, networking, storage, and supporting infrastructure before production acceptance.
• Lead GPU burn-in and validation testing at scale, including thermal, power, stress, and performance qualification.
• Partner with infrastructure, network engineering, deployment, product, and operations leaders to balance long-term platform architecture with immediate business needs.
• Turn ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges into clear plans, priorities, milestones, and accountable execution.
• Drive alignment across interdependent teams working on compute platforms, internal infrastructure, developer tooling, and operational systems.
• Raise the bar for engineering quality, automation, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Build scalable approaches for systems monitoring, telemetry, incident learning, and continuous platform improvement.
• Travel up to 50% to support deployments, site readiness, vendor collaboration, and operational execution.