Cool your data center with 20°C water while using 30% less water and electricity than a chiller. Forget the wet bulb, cool to the dew point. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We are hiring a Founding Operations Manager to build and run the physical operations that turn Madrone’s technology into deployed, reliable infrastructure. You will own the operational backbone of the company: setting up our R&D facility, coordinating suppliers and shipments, managing inventory and equipment, and supporting installation and maintenance at customer sites. You will create the processes that allow a small engineering team to move quickly without losing track of critical details.
What they're looking for
- Experience managing physical operations in a hardware, industrial, manufacturing, construction, logistics, or field-service environment
- A track record of coordinating complex projects involving suppliers, equipment, shipping, facilities, and tight deadlines
- Strong organizational and project-management skills, with exceptional attention to detail
- Comfort working around mechanical and electrical equipment and learning unfamiliar technical systems
- The resourcefulness to solve practical problems with limited time, information, and infrastructure
- Sound judgment about when to build a process, when to improvise, and when to escalate
More about this role
Madrone is building the thermal infrastructure required for artificial intelligence to tackle humanity’s most complex challenges - from curing cancer to achieving room-temperature superconductivity.
Power is the primary constraint on data center growth, and currently up to 40% of power is lost to cooling at current GW-scale sites.
Madrone’s first product is a modular, hyper-efficient facility water cooling system for hyperscale data centers. It allows cooling to the dew point, lower than anyone else can without using mechanical chillers.
We’re assembling an exceptional team to push the frontier of heat rejection on Earth.
We are hiring a Founding Operations Manager to build and run the physical operations that turn Madrone’s technology into deployed, reliable infrastructure.
You will own the operational backbone of the company: setting up our R&D facility, coordinating suppliers and shipments, managing inventory and equipment, and supporting installation and maintenance at customer sites. You will create the processes that allow a small engineering team to move quickly without losing track of critical details.
This is a highly hands-on role. On any given day, you might negotiate...
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