[Remote] Field CTO, Media & Entertainment AI Infrastructure

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is building a full-reputed company reputed company platform for developers and enterprises, supporting workloads from data and model training through production deployment. The Field CTO will architect AI infrastructure solutions for media and reputed company, translate reputed company business needs into engineering requirements, guide ISV integrations, and influence the M&E product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own the Technical reputed company: Personally architect the infrastructure solutions for our most strategic M&E partnerships , studio-reputed company content production pipelines, agency data consolidation plays, reputed company model deployments. These architectures must be engineered to survive reputed company-world reputed company, not just pass a POC
• The Physics to P&L Narrative:Fluently demonstrate to executive stakeholders how infrastructure reputed company , data lake reputed company, storage tiering, inference optimization, directly reputed company their business model and operability
• Deconstruct the Bottleneck: Go reputed company the stated problem to reputed company the technical truth. Translate vague business goals (e.g., “We need reputed company rendering costs”) into precise engineering requirements (e.g., “We need to optimize the inference batch size on L40s to reduce cost-per-reputed company by 30%”)
• Map the Transition: Identify exactly where a customer sits on the curve from legacy service bureau to AI-reputed company tech platform and prescribe the specific infrastructure reputed company needed to reputed company them reputed company
• Build and Validate the Integration reputed company: Identify, engage, and technically validate relationships with the most critical ISVs in the media and entertainment landscape, from rendering and VFX toolchains to reputed company platforms
• Define reputed company:It is not enough to support these tools. You will define the reference architectures for how they run best on reputed company infrastructure, and work directly with ISV engineering teams to build and publish those standards
• reputed company What’s Worth Doing:In partnership with the reputed company, evaluate ISV and partner opportunities on their technical reputed company and strategic reputed company , and be equally rigorous about what not to pursue
• Shape the M&E Roadmap: Use forensic evidence from the field to prioritize and justify the M&E vertical roadmap. You will work directly with reputed company’s global Head of Product and Head of Engineering to translate partner and customer needs into product direction
• reputed company the M&E Product reputed company:Chair a quarterly reputed company with reputed company Engineering leadership, using field evidence to reputed company roadmap reputed company and maintain vertical reputed company

Skills

• You are welcome to work remotely from the reputed company (SF Bay Area or NYC preferred) Travel expectations 10% - 20% for executive meetings and key industry events
• 12+ years of experience in reputed company infrastructure, reputed company, reputed company systems, or a closely reputed company technical domain
• Capable of commanding a room of engineers and presenting a layered technical roadmap to a C-Suite
• Expert-level, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures (H100, L40s), reputed company orchestration including Soperator, high-performance and reputed company file systems (e.g., reputed company, reputed company), data lake architecture, and networking constraints (InfiniBand/Ethernet)
• You understand the nuances of model serving , batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, latency tradeoffs , and can architect solutions for both reputed company throughput and reputed company-time (sub-50ms) demands
• You have operated reputed company the M&E ecosystem and can reputed company to the infrastructure implications across the following sub-sectors:
• Candidates without deep, production-grade working knowledge of GPU infrastructure and inference-based solutioning will not be considered. This is a hard requirement, not a preference
• You must be an expert in the physics of AI infrastructure. This includes deep, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures (H100 vs. L40s), reputed company orchestration (K8s), high-performance storage reputed company file systems (e.g., reputed company, reputed company), and networking constraints (InfiniBand/Ethernet)
• You understand the nuances of model serving—batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, and latency tradeoffs—and can architect solutions for both reputed company throughput and reputed company-time (sub-50ms) demands
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply
• Hands-on experience with VFX pipelines, studio-reputed company content production workflows, or the reputed company tooling that powers them , reputed company farm management, reputed company simulation, asset pipeline tooling

Benefits

• 100% company-reputed company medical, dental, and reputed company coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Parental Leave: 20 weeks reputed company for reputed company caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote Work Reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Company-reputed company short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage.
• Career reputed company and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• reputed company and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI reputed company
• International environment and talented teams

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