The San Francisco Compute Company manufactures supercomputers. Backed by Electric Capital.
About the role
A proven track record closing hard-to-fill technical roles. You can hold your own in a conversation with an infrastructure or systems engineer, and you know when a candidate is bluffing Comfort operating at both altitudes, advising a hiring manager on comp strategy one hour and writing sourcing outreach the next. No part of the work is beneath you
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including time at a high-growth startup, a talent-dense engineering organization, or a top-tier search firm
- A proven track record closing hard-to-fill technical roles. You can hold your own in a conversation with an infrastructure or systems engineer, and you know when a candidate is bluffing
- Experience owning a recruiting function, not just a req list: ATS ownership, process design, reporting, and agency management
- Have built and managed a small talent team: sourcers, coordinators, or recruiters
- Comfort operating at both altitudes, advising a hiring manager on comp strategy one hour and writing sourcing outreach the next. No part of the work is beneath you
- The ability to sell the vision: you can distill a complex technical problem into a pitch that a great candidate wants to hear
More about this role
San Francisco Compute exists to give ambitious teams large scale supercomputers without taking on a catastrophic balance sheet risk. Most GPU clouds force you to sign long term contracts with no way out. If you underbuy, you miss the window. If you overbuy, you’ll blow up with no way out. It’s a desperate gamble that San Francisco Compute does not force you to play.
Originally, SFC was an AI lab that bought too big of a GPU cluster and was forced to sublease it or go under. Today, we build data centers, supercomputers, and then lease those machines on contracts that let our customers sublease. More than anyone else in the industry, we deeply felt the pain and fear of being forced to bet the farm with your neocloud vendor. To make it possible to sublease, we invented the first compute market and became the first one to offer physical settlement. That means we operate GPU clusters like a neocloud and derisk our customers like a market.
Customers buying GPU clusters don’t want to work through a network of brokers. They want to transact with the folks that have the keys to the cluster and can own the SLA.
To keep the industry safe from unnecessary risk, SFC needs to scale fast. To do...
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