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TensorWave is building a cloud platform for AI compute at scale. The Senior Manager, Cluster Engineering & Deployment owns the critical function of transforming delivered hardware racks into production-ready clusters. This role is schedule-critical: cluster revenue begins when this team certifies a cluster is ready.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the cluster deployment playbook, including staged bring-up, automated configuration, link/optics validation, cabling verification against port maps, and fault triage during deployment windows.
- Lead deployment engineering across concurrent cluster builds through team leads and on-site engineers; coordinate daily with Data Center Integration field teams and cabling vendors.
- Drive deployment velocity engineering by reducing cluster bring-up time through tooling, pre-staging, and defect elimination; set team performance targets.
- Manage defect feedback loops to Network Engineering, Layer One (cabling), and hardware/optics vendors, holding partners accountable to resolution timelines.
- Define spares, test equipment, and deployment tooling requirements per site and standardize across all deployment locations.
- Own cluster validation end-to-end: bandwidth/latency baselines, collective (RCCL) performance testing, burn-in criteria, and go/no-go acceptance gates; continuously raise standards as the fleet scales.
Requirements:
- 10+ years in network deployment, cluster/HPC bring-up, or large-scale infrastructure delivery, including managing engineers in field/deployment settings.
- Hands-on fabric bring-up experience at scale (hundreds of switches, thousands of links per deployment).
- Strong operational rigor: building and enforcing playbooks, gates, metrics, and blameless defect loops.
- Team leadership with schedule accountability across multiple concurrent builds or sites.
Preferred Qualifications:
- GPU cluster validation experience (NCCL/RCCL benchmarking).
- Automation skills (Python, Ansible) applied to deployment.
- Optics/link-layer debugging expertise.
- Experience with acceptance testing as a commercial gate tied to revenue.
