Head of Compute Operations
Hybrid (New York, NY)$110k - $150k + equityFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Beam is hiring a Head of Compute Operations to onboard more compute to its AI-native cloud platform. You will work with data center operators, OEMs, suppliers, and compute providers to evaluate, test, and contract new capacity, manage clusters online, and build the support playbook.
Responsibilities
- Manage our supply of compute. Keep a live view of capacity across our datacenter partners, from hardware type, location, network fabric, operator, and delivery dates.
- Onboard and vet new compute operators. Run diligence and KYC on new partners and review hardware specs and BOMs.
- Bring clusters online. Manage the process of running a POC and acceptance testing, including burn-in, NCCL, and interconnect bandwidth. Set up bare-metal and BMC access, and hand clusters to customers on the date we promised.
- Build our support playbook. Setup run books to escalate issues to suppliers, manage RMAs and replacements, and track uptime against our SLAs.
Qualifications
- You’ve worked in datacenter ops, capacity planning, or infrastructure delivery at a GPU cloud, neocloud, hyperscaler, or colo provider
- You’re technical enough to SSH into a node and communicate things like the difference between InfiniBand and RoCE
- You have the business acumen to explain how a deposit or prepayment schedule affects cash flow
- You’ve managed vendors and held them accountable when things went wrong
- You’re organized and have a strong attention to detail
Skills
Required:Datacenter operationsHardware and interconnect knowledgeVendor management
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Join a fast-growing pre-Series A company on the ground floor
- Health, dental, and vision benefits with 90% coverage for you and 50% for dependents
- Opportunities to represent Beam at events across the AI and cloud infrastructure community
- Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much, much more
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Beam
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Beam is cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes, and agents.
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