VP of GPU Infrastructure

VP of GPU Infrastructure
Full-Time | Permanent | Remote

Nomad Compute PLC is building a globally positioned AI infrastructure platform designed for customers seeking distributed, globally deployable alternatives. Instead of tethering customers to a physical warehouse, we focus on containerized, relocatable, high-performance compute environments. Governments, enterprises, industrial operators, and sovereign partners are increasingly looking for infrastructure that offers greater flexibility, regional control, data sovereignty, and deployment independence. In a world where access to AI infrastructure is increasingly monopolized by a small number of hyperscalers, we’re providing a solution in which access and flexibility are at the core of what we do. 

Nomad Compute deploys modular GPU compute containers that can operate off-grid and relocate globally as demand shifts. We deploy at locations where stranded energy, data residency requirements, or proximity create real, structural advantages over traditional centralized cloud. This infrastructure is designed for enterprise, telecom, industrial, energy, and government AI workloads across international markets. 

Nomad Compute PLC is publicly listed on the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market under ticker NMD. The company has recently secured financing to accelerate deployment, secure strategic OEM relationships, expand technical leadership, and launch initial infrastructure rollouts. 

We are hiring a hands-on VP to design, build and run the GPU compute that goes inside our containers. You will own the technical design of Nomad's systems, work directly with our OEM and manufacturing partners, and lead deployments from prototype through to production rollouts. This seat is the first technical leader joining the company and you’ll have the opportunity to scale both technical strategy and hands-on design.

You will define how modular and distributed AI infrastructure is built over the next decade.

Who You Are

We have been waiting for the moment when we can put compute into the hands of people and small businesses, rather than just large hyperscalers, and you are excited by the possibility of what makes a modular, relocatable model like Nomad's possible. That’s because you understand the heart of what we are solving at Nomad: how to physically house and cool dense compute, and how the compute itself is designed and built. Having watched the industry evolve over the last 10 years, you intimately understand the opportunity surrounding the increasingly lighter requirements of compute infrastructure, as a direct result of new generations of chips. The core mandate of this role is building a compute prototype that is both modular and relocatable, and while to some that would feel daunting, to you that challenge feels exciting. 

You command a room technically, but have the ability to think like a designer, easily pivoting between pure engineering, systems design, and integration without breaking a sweat. You routinely solve complex technical design challenges by thinking out of the box to break the mold that the industry has created. First Principles thinking is likely your default operating model, and as a result, you have a knack for escaping the dogma of “this is how it’s always been done” to build and innovate towards what you know is true and possible. You can hold your own with any engineer, chip designer, customer, or supplier in this space, and you do it with real depth on both the infrastructure and the hardware sides. You’re ready to reimagine what’s possible as this industry shepherds in a new era of design possibilities. 

You will work closely with our CEO and founder, and you will build the company’s first engineering team around you. This role suits someone who has personally built and operated GPU infrastructure and wants to do it again at the start of a company, with real ownership and a direct line to the people making decisions.

What you will do:

• Design and specify the compute systems inside our containers, including GPU servers, power, cooling and networking for dense, relocatable deployments.

• Select, qualify and test hardware and suppliers, and build repeatable reference designs that scale across sites.

• Own relationships with OEMs and manufacturers, overseas and onshore, including quality control, lead times and cost.

• Lead the build, commissioning and operation of prototype and production deployments, including remote and off-grid locations.

• Put monitoring, fleet management and reliability practices in place to keep GPU capacity running.

• Build the cost model and technical roadmap with the CEO and executive team.

• Hire and lead the first engineers and technicians, and stay close to the work.

• Explain technical decisions, trade-offs, cost and risk clearly to non-technical executives, investors and customers.

What you bring:

The core requirement is hands-on GPU experience: you have personally built and operated GPU infrastructure, and you can describe what you owned and at what scale. We will ask early what you built or ran in the last few years.

• 8 or more years of progressive experience in data centre, HPC or GPU infrastructure engineering.

• 8-10 years of senior leadership experience influencing technical product strategy and design

• Personal ownership of a GPU infrastructure build or operation within the last few years, with specifics on scale such as GPU count, rack density and power.

• Owned the end-to-end NPI Stage-Gate process, from engineering requirements through commercial launch

• Working knowledge of power, cooling and networking for high-density compute, along with hardware reliability and deployment logistics.

• Direct experience managing OEM or ODM relationships, including quality control and the ramp from prototype to production.

• Experience leading or mentoring technical teams, ideally at a startup or in a high-growth environment.

• Comfort with startup ambiguity and fast execution, and willingness to do hands-on work yourself.

• Clear communication. You can explain technical choices, cost and risk to executives, investors and customers who do not share your background.

• Led technical teams in fast-moving or high-growth environments

• Worked comfortably inside startup ambiguity and rapid execution cycles

• Recruited and led strong technical talent

Nice to have:

These strengthen an application. None is required.

• Immersion cooling or advanced liquid cooling experience.

• Crypto mining infrastructure, or modular and containerized data centre builds.

• Exposure to chip, GPU or board design and hardware development.

• A background at a NeoCloud or GPU cloud infrastructure company.

• Experience running a new product introduction process from engineering requirements through commercial launch.

• Experience working with manufacturers in Asia, including time on the factory floor completing FAT testing, and monitoring product QA/QC.

What You’ll Get:

• A significant opportunity to help build one of the defining sovereign AI infrastructure platforms, while the market is still being shaped.

• Genuine technical ownership. You will design the systems, make the hardware decisions and hire the first engineers, with Board backing and a founder who works collaboratively.

• Meaningful equity participation and a compensation structure designed for exceptional technical talent, with a clear path to value creation as the company scales.

• A publicly listed platform (Aquis: NMD) with recent financing secured, OEM relationships in motion and initial deployments underway.

• An international mandate from day one, deploying globally distributed AI infrastructure across European, Commonwealth, Middle Eastern and emerging market channels.

• Room for your scope to grow as the company does, and the chance to become a recognized technical voice in the global conversation about AI sovereignty and alternatives to the hyperscalers.

• Globally remote role - we’re looking for the best candidate, regardless of location.