Director of Engineering, Compute

at Groq
📍 Palo Alto, United States
USD 300,000-375,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Leadership @ 4 Communication @ 7 Networking @ 3 Technical Leadership @ 4

Details

Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we are on a mission to make high performance AI compute more accessible and affordable. When real-time AI is within reach, anything is possible. Build fast.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role:

  • Architect and oversee the development of Groq’s hyperscale compute platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Lead highly technical engineering teams focused on container orchestration, hardware provisioning, and platform automation.
  • Own and continuously enhance Groq’s hyperscaler infrastructure, operating across multiple global data centers.
  • Provide technical leadership in infrastructure automation, containerization technologies, and high-performance computing architecture.
  • Define and execute technical roadmaps that advance Groq’s capability to manage large-scale infrastructure efficiently.

Requirements

  • Proven leadership experience in highly technical engineering environments, with a track record of delivering innovative platform solutions and effectively leading, motivating, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated excellence in communication, negotiation, and interpersonal interactions across executives, cross-functional stakeholders, and team members, with a strong ability to influence and drive organizational change.
  • Extensive experience architecting and building large-scale hyperscaler compute platforms.
  • Deep technical expertise with container orchestration, high-performance computing environments, infrastructure automation tools, and cloud-native technologies.
  • Strong familiarity with data center networking, compute hardware, and infrastructure performance tuning.

Benefits

At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits. For this role, the base salary range is $300,000 to $375,000, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.