Vice President of Engineering

TLDR

Lead engineering functions to enhance AI infrastructure and performance while mentoring teams and driving strategic technical initiatives.

Our mission at Tensorwave Cloud is to build seamless, secure, reliable, and resilient AI infrastructure at scale, eliminating barriers and challenging the status quo to empower builders and support AI innovation.

About the role

We are seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead all engineering functions across infrastructure, platform, hardware integration, and reliability.

This executive will partner closely with the CEO to set technical strategy, scale large GPU clusters, and deliver world-class performance and reliability for enterprise AI workloads.

This role is responsible for building and leading high-performing engineering teams, establishing strong technical standards, and ensuring TensorWave’s engineering organization can scale with the company’s growth while maintaining operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Own the engineering roadmap across compute infrastructure, software platform, networking, and data-center operations.

  • Lead, mentor, and scale high-performance engineering teams - infrastructure, systems, platform, SRE

  • Drive architecture and execution of large-scale AMD-based GPU clusters

  • Ensure reliability, performance, and security across all production systems

  • Collaborate with Product, Operations, and CEO on long-term technical strategy

  • Establish rigorous engineering processes, documentation, and quality standards

  • Manage budgets, hiring, and resource allocation to support rapid growth

  • Represent engineering in executive planning, customer discussions, and investor interactions as needed

Required Experience

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

  • 15+ year of experience in software engineering, cloud computing, or related technical field

  • 10+ years of engineering leadership in software engineering, cloud computing, or related technical field

  • Deep experience with large-scale compute systems, HPC, or GPU/accelerator infrastructure

  • Strong understanding of cluster orchestration, networking, distributed systems, and performance optimization

  • Proven ability to scale engineering organizations in high-growth environments

  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership skills

  • Experience with AMD Instinct GPUs, Kubernetes, or high-bandwidth architectures

Preferred Experience

  • Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

  • Experience with a neocloud or hyper-scaler

  • Product minded

What We Bring

  • Mission driven company

  • Competitive Salary

  • Stock Options

  • 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

  • Flexible PTO

  • Paid Holidays

  • 401(k)

  • Parental Leave

  • Flexible Spending Account

  • Short Term Disability Insurance

  • Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance

  • Mental Health Benefits through Spring Health

We’re looking for resilient, adaptable people to join our team, people who believe in the mission and think at massive scale. The solutions that worked on a handful of devices will not work at Exascale. Be prepared to be pushed daily, to learn a lot, and literally build the future.

Tensorwave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, national origin, or veteran status.

Benefits

Health Insurance

100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Mental Health Benefits

Mental Health Benefits through Spring Health

Paid Parental Leave

Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

Flexible PTO

TensorWave delivers a high-performance cloud computing platform that leverages AMD Instinct™ GPUs to supercharge AI research and advanced workloads. Tailored for developers and researchers in the AI space, our platform removes infrastructure hurdles, enabling innovators to focus on pushing the boundaries of technology.

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