Engineering Manager – Bare Metal & Clusters

Permanent employee, Full-time · Maria01 (Helsinki)

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

As a cherry on top, we’ve recently raised $64M in Series A and are ready to reach new heights.

Why DataCrunch

Generous cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
Our operations are profitable, in addition to fast growth.
You’ll be an integral part of the small yet mighty team of 61, challenging the status quo to positively impact the lives of many people.
You’ll work in small teams of experts.
27 nationalities in total, with 6 different ones in the management team.
We foster a community-like atmosphere: we often enjoy each other’s company after work, e.g., munching on BBQ made by Ruben, our CEO by day and master chef by night.

Practicalities

Hybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Kamppi office at least 3 days per week. Don’t worry - you won’t be alone or hangry there. (We keep a stocked fridge…)
Level of expertise: Senior.
Employment type: Full-time and permanent.

Your responsibilities

Lead and coordinate the development of bare-metal and virtualized GPU cluster offerings.
Work closely with SRE, hardware, and cluster teams to deliver robust infrastructure.
Drive the infrastructure and cluster roadmaps, aligning priorities across teams and ensuring clear delivery goals.
Oversee tracking of server infrastructure, ensuring visibility and accountability for hardware usage and deployments.
Align team efforts with company objectives, resolving priorities across multiple streams of work.
Implement and improve processes for roadmapping, prioritization, and cross-team collaboration.
Mentor and support engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, delivery, and innovation.
Contribute to long-term scalability by identifying and addressing systemic infrastructure challenges.

Your key competencies

Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Senior Technical Lead, ideally in a start-up or scale-up environment.
Strong background in bare metal server management and distributed computing/HPC.
Experience with virtualization in large-scale environments.
Strong leadership, organizational, and cross-functional communication skills.
Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical.

Nice-to-haves

Experience with MaaS and infrastructure automation.
Experience with the latest generation GPU systems.
Experience with high-performance networking, including RDMA-based network fabrics (e.g. InfiniBand, RoCE).
Experience with HPC workload orchestration using Slurm and/or Kubernetes.
Experience with observability and monitoring stack (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
Exposure to hardware lifecycle management and data center operations.

How the process looks like

Introductory chat (45 mins): Meet with our Talent Partner to learn more about DataCrunch and share your career goals.
Technical/leadership interview (45 mins): With our CTO, focus on your experience in team leadership, project coordination, and building teams and systems.
Technical conversation: A discussion with our engineers, with a deeper dive into your technical approach and ways of working.
Final interview (60 mins): Meet with our CEO and the wider team.

What's next

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