VP Platform Engineering

About The Role Volta builds and operates large scale GPU compute infrastructure for frontier AI customers. The software that turns racks of GPUs into a usable platform is its own product, and it is the one you will own.

You will build and run the organization behind Volta's platform: the multi-tenant IaaS, the software that provisions and manages the bare metal beneath it, the network fabric integration, and over time the higher-level services that sit on top of an AI factory. You set the strategic direction for all of it under high-level guidance from the CTO, and you build the organization that delivers it.

This is a building role, not a caretaking one. You inherit a strong early engineering presence, including a principal engineer leading the first US team and engineers in Europe who will move into a local structure under a Director, Platform Engineering, EMEA acting as your deputy. That role is not yet filled, and you will hire it.

You report to the CTO, sit alongside Volta's other functional leaders, and partner closely with the CPO on product direction without sitting inside that reporting line. It is a software leadership role, but not an abstracted one. Our platform sits directly on GPU hardware, high-performance fabric, and physical sites, and it only works if it stays coherent with them.

What You Own

• The platform. The multi-tenant IaaS and bare metal management stacks, the network fabric integration and the software that programs it, the customer-facing console and APIs, the operational and analytics tooling above the data center layer, the build-versus-buy calls, and the architecture that keeps all of it coherent as Volta scales.
• The organization. Headcount and budget, the leadership structure beneath you, the hiring bar, and the health and retention of an organization growing toward 50-plus engineers across two continents.
• Delivery and reliability. The platform meeting its commitments to internal and customer-facing stakeholders, at the operational quality frontier AI deployments demand.
• The interfaces. Clean, well-understood boundaries with the project delivery and infrastructure engineering functions, the CDO's organization, security engineering, and product.

Why this Role Volta is early enough that the decisions this person makes will define how the platform gets built for years, and late enough that the customers are real and the deadlines are contractual. If building and leading the software organization behind some of the largest AI deployments in the world is the right problem, we would like to talk.

What You Will Be Doing Strategy and Direction

• Own the strategy for Volta's platform software: where the IaaS, bare metal management, and network platform layers go, what we build versus buy, and how the platform evolves as the business scales.
• Translate the product roadmap owned by the CPO into a concrete platform roadmap, in strategic alignment with the CTO, and own execution against it.
• Make the architectural calls that keep the platform coherent as scope and headcount grow.

Building the Organization

• Grow platform engineering toward 50-plus engineers across the US and EU, deliberately and without lowering the hiring bar.
• Structure the organization as capability teams that own defined parts of the stack, including compute, storage, control plane and APIs, confidential computing, networking, and the customer-facing surface.
• Build the leadership layer beneath you: team leads, the Director for EMEA as your deputy, and the management bench that lets you stop being the escalation point for everything.
• Own hiring: define requirements, raise the bar, and close strong candidates.

Technical Leadership

• Stay close enough to the technology to lead architecture and design reviews, drive the hard technical debates, and call the right answer when it matters.
• Own the boundary between the platform software and the hardware.