Backed by a16z.
About the role
Crux AI is standing up multi-gigawatt TPU cluster fabrics and edge networking from zero. As Director, Data Center Networking, you will own the network layer end-to-end, from powered shell to the production fabric moving traffic at line rate. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will build and scale our global network engineering function from scratch. This is a true hands-on, builder seat, not a supervisory position.
What they're looking for
- 15+ years in large-scale data center, ISP, or hyperscale network engineering, with 7+ years leading network engineering teams
- Deep Knowledge of High-Performance Fabrics: Hands-on mastery of high-throughput AI/ML or HPC networks at hyperscaler or neocloud scale
- Data Center Provisioning : Track record standing up network provisioning and turn-up processes using Infrastructure-as-Code techniques across multiple data center builds, partnering directly with construction, MEP, and capacity delivery teams
- Hyperscaler / Neocloud Leadership: Network engineering leadership at a hyperscaler or leading neocloud during rapid growth
- TPU / GPU Cluster Operations: Direct experience with TPU/GPU interconnect fabrics, collective communication debugging, and scale-out burn-in testing
- Hyperscale Supplier Partnership: Experience managing technical co-engineering relationships with major technology/silicon partners comparable to Google
More about this role
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
Crux AI is led by CEO, Ben Treynor Sloss, who spent over two decades in executive technical leadership at Google, led the creation of Google’s global network, and founded the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline . At Crux AI, we treat operations and network infrastructure fundamentally as a software engineering problem.
Crux AI is standing up multi-gigawatt TPU cluster fabrics and edge networking from zero. As Director, Data Center Networking, you will own the network layer end-to-end, from powered shell to the production fabric moving traffic at...
Browse similar: Startup jobs · Remote jobs · San Francisco Bay Area