Director, Deployment Engineering — Systems Engineering

The role

Nscale is looking for a Director of Deployment Engineering to lead the systems engineering function responsible for deploying, validating, and operating the core compute platforms that underpin our AI infrastructure.

You will lead a high-performing engineering team across systems, compute operations, and deployment validation. This role combines technical leadership with operational execution: defining the standards, tooling, and processes that ensure infrastructure is reliable, scalable, production-ready, and delivered at pace.

What you’ll do

• Lead and scale the systems engineering team responsible for core platform systems, deployment readiness, and compute operations.

• Define and deliver multi-quarter systems engineering initiatives that improve deployment velocity, platform reliability, validation quality, and operational performance.

• Establish systems validation standards for servers, GPUs, networking, storage, and supporting infrastructure before production acceptance.

• Lead GPU burn-in and validation testing at scale, including thermal, power, stress, and performance qualification.

• Partner with infrastructure, network engineeri