Head of Compute Engineering

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Head of Compute Engineering in Netherlands.

The Head of Compute Engineering will lead the development and operation of high-performance GPU compute infrastructure, serving AI researchers, ML teams, and fast-growing startups. This role combines deep technical expertise with engineering leadership, driving architecture decisions, infrastructure reliability, and product innovation. You will manage a team of engineers, shape the roadmap for GPU provisioning and orchestration, and work closely with customers to optimize workload performance. This hands-on leadership role offers a rare opportunity to influence both technical strategy and day-to-day operations in a cutting-edge AI infrastructure environment. You will implement scalable systems, observability frameworks, and operational processes while fostering a culture of excellence and ownership.

• Lead a team of engineers across GPU compute, platform infrastructure, backend services, and internal tooling, ensuring high standards of quality and reliability.
• Contribute directly to architecture and code, particularly on GPU provisioning, orchestration, and customer-facing control planes.
• Own engineering delivery, including planning, prioritization, execution, and alignment with product and company goals.
• Implement observability, alerting, and on-call processes to maintain SLAs and operational health.
• Collaborate with early customers to gather requirements and translate them into scalable product solutions.
• Hire, onboard, and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Continuously improve compute infrastructure and operational workflows to support high-performance AI workloads.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including 1–2 years in a tech lead or engineering management role within GPU compute environments.
• Practical experience with CUDA, NVIDIA drivers, MIG/vGPU, or similar GPU compute technologies.
• Strong knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Expertise in GPU cluster management, bare-metal provisioning, and inference software.
• Startup mindset: thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and takes full ownership of outcomes.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring skills to guide engineering teams.
• Bonus: experience with hyperscalers, Neocloud infrastructure, job schedulers (Slurm, LSF, Ray), large-scale storage (VAST, Weka, DAOS, Ceph, AWS S3, Lustre, GPFS), networking (InfiniBand/RoCE), and GPU inference/fine-tuning workloads (vLLM, LanceDB).

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment within CET-aligned time zones.
• Opportunity to lead GPU compute engineering in a high-growth AI infrastructure space.
• Hands-on role with deep technical involvement, not just managerial responsibilities.
• Attractive equity for an early-stage, high-growth company.
• Direct collaboration with founders, influencing product and technical strategy.
• Flexible work arrangements promoting work-life balance.