Network Deployment People Lead

Fluidstack

$120K — $160K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience managing network deployment or field engineering teams at scale.
  • Track record of optimizing team staffing across multiple concurrent projects without employee burnout.
  • Experience in creating effective onboarding processes to accelerate new employee productivity.
  • High employee retention, with some team members following you between roles.
  • Bonus: Knowledge of hyperscale turn-ups, contractor and full-time employee integration, training program design, and deployment tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the network deployment workforce by hiring, developing, and managing engineers and technicians.
  • Oversee team allocation to ensure optimal staffing for simultaneous turn-ups at multiple sites.
  • Establish an onboarding pipeline that rapidly prepares network technicians for hyperscale deployment.
  • Manage on-call duties, travel schedules, and overall team health for a geographically distributed workforce.
  • Drive the deployment of extensive network capacity across multiple high-demand sites efficiently.

Benefits

  • Full autonomy and ownership of projects.
  • Fast-paced work environment with a focus on speed.
  • Culture that encourages challenging assumptions and innovative thinking.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and technology projects with significant impact.
Full Job Description
How We Operate
  • Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
  • Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The Deployments Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Turn empty data halls into serving GPUs in weeks. Deployment owns everything between construction handover and customer-ready compute: racks, fabric, and validation at hundreds of megawatts per site.
  • Stand up gigawatts a year, hundreds of megawatts at a time. Data halls go from construction handover to serving GPUs in weeks, across multiple sites at once.
  • Deploy 10GW with software, not headcount. Bring-up, validation, and handoff run on tooling the team builds, so the hundredth data hall deploys faster than the first instead of needing a hundred times the people.

Role Scope
  • Lead the network deployment workforce: hire, grow, and run the engineers and technicians turning up fabrics site after site.
  • Own team allocation across concurrent sites so every turn-up is staffed for its window.
  • Build the onboarding pipeline that takes a network technician to hyperscale turn-up quality in days.
  • Own on-call, travel rotation, and team health for a workforce that lives where the builds are.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've managed network deployment or field engineering teams at scale.
  • You've staffed concurrent projects out of one shared team without burning it out.
  • You've built onboarding that made new hires productive in days.
  • Your people stay, and some have followed you between companies.
  • Bonus: Hyperscale turn-ups. Contractor and FTE blending. Training program design. Deployment tooling fluency.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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