Lab Infrastructure and Operations Manager, Annapurna Labs Silicon

Data Center & Lab Infrastructure Design and Buildout

Lead end-to-end design and construction of lab and data center environments — power (MW-scale), cooling (air/liquid), structured cabling, and network fabric. Define technical requirements including electrical capacity planning, thermal modeling, rack density, and redundancy architectures. Drive infrastructure decisions across UPS, PDUs, generators, switchgear, chillers, and emerging technologies (liquid cooling, DC distribution).

Own full lifecycle from design through commissioning and decommissioning.

Data Center Operations & Network Infrastructure

• Lead networking engineers in designing and operating high-performance lab network fabrics (spine-leaf, 400G+).
• Own operational excellence — availability, capacity management, change management, and incident response.
• Establish monitoring/alerting across all systems, define SLAs, and drive automation of operational workflows including infrastructure-as-code and predictive maintenance.

Strategic Leadership & Execution

• Lead a multi-disciplinary, multi-location team of networking engineers, DC operations, and facility engineers.
• Define vision and goals working backwards from silicon engineering needs.
• Attract and develop exceptional talent; build future leaders through coaching and delegation.
• Manage trade-offs between tactical operations and long-term strategic buildouts.

Process Improvement & Cross-Functional Influence

• Establish scalable, repeatable processes for facility operations and lab provisioning.
• Drive standardization to reduce mean-time-to-provision.
• Influence senior leaders through written narratives and partner cross-functionally with silicon engineering, hardware design, security, and real estate teams.