Head of Compute and Capacity - Lithos AI

Unusual Ventures
San Francisco, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

The Head of Compute and Capacity will own the multi-year capacity plan, run procurement across vendors, and own commercial terms. This role reports directly to the founders and is a critical commercial seat at Lithos.

What You Will Do

The Head of Compute and Capacity will own the capacity plan, run procurement, own commercial terms, build a price book and vendor scorecard, model total cost of ownership, and partner with engineering to ensure the hardware purchased is compatible with the software.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in compute capacity, infrastructure procurement, or data-center commercial roles, with experience negotiating and closing seven-figure-plus infrastructure contracts.

Requirements

  • 7+ years in compute capacity, infrastructure procurement or data-center commercial roles
  • Experience negotiating and closing seven-figure-plus infrastructure contracts
  • Working knowledge of current GPU generations, high-speed networking (InfiniBand/RoCE), and cluster optimization
  • Ability to think and speak in numbers ($/GPU-hour, utilization, power density, delivery lead times, effective cost per unit of performance)
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