Technical Program Manager – Networking NPI
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
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About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
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About the Role
You will lead New Product Introduction for networking across a US GPU cloud, owning the path from a new platform, architecture or vendor being selected to it being proven, documented and ready to deploy at scale. You will build phase-gated plans, drive qualification of switches, NICs, optics and NOS, manage vendors, run pilot builds and hand off to Deployment. Some travel to vendor labs and pilot sites is involved.
Requirements
- 5+ years in technical program management, hardware NPI, or network engineering with ownership of bringing new network hardware or architectures into production
- Experience at a hyperscaler, major network or silicon vendor, or ODM/OEM, or comparable large-scale environment
- Hands-on familiarity with hardware qualification, lab validation, interop testing, firmware and NOS lifecycle, defect triage, and phase-gate NPI
- Strong technical grounding in data center and cluster networking: Ethernet, InfiniBand, RoCE, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, optics, structured cabling
- Ability to drive vendors and cross-functional teams to decisions
- Comfortable working in ambiguity
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Willingness to travel to vendor labs and pilot sites
Responsibilities
- Own the NPI program for new networking platforms from vendor selection to release to Deployment
- Build NPI plans with phase gates, entry and exit criteria, owners, and dates
- Drive qualification and validation of switches, NICs/DPUs, optics, cables, and network operating systems
- Run vendor engagement including roadmap alignment, sample allocation, bug and RMA tracking, and escalation
- Partner with Network Architecture to create production-ready reference builds, golden configs, BOMs, and acceptance test plans
- Lead first-of-a-kind pilot builds and capture lessons learned
- Own the handoff to Deployment including documentation, training, readiness reviews, and supply plan
- Track technical, schedule, and supply risks and drive decisions
- Build the NPI process including templates, gate reviews, dashboards, and reporting
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation
- Bonus, equity and/or commission eligibility