Field CTO, Media & Entertainment AI Infrastructure

Role description

Role Overview

The Field CTO, Media & Entertainment AI Infrastructure is a senior engineering leader who will initially operate as an individual contributor at the intersection of deep AI infrastructure engineering and the business of media and entertainment, with a clear path to building and leading a team as the business scales.

What You Will Do

You will work alongside CTOs and engineering leaders at studio groups, VFX houses, gaming studios, agency holding companies, and generative AI model companies. Your role is not to pitch them; it is to build with them.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is a ground-floor opportunity to define what AI-native infrastructure looks like for an industry in the middle of a fundamental transformation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related technical domain.
• Executive Presence: Capable of commanding a room of engineers and presenting a layered technical roadmap to a C-Suite.
• Builder Mentality: This role begins as a hands-on individual contributor position.
• Product-Minded: Experience defining a platform strategy, not just executing tickets.
• Ambiguity Tolerance: You thrive in environments where requirements are evolving.
• Forensic Mindset: You are not satisfied with surface-level answers.
• AI Infrastructure Expertise: Mastery of the Stack: Expert-level, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures (H100, L40s), Kubernetes orchestration including Soperator, high-performance and parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, WEKA), data lake architecture, and networking constraints (InfiniBand/Ethernet).
• Inference Optimization: You understand the nuances of model serving, batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, latency tradeoffs, and can architect solutions for both massive throughput and real-time (sub-50ms) demands.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote Work Reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage.
• Pay Transparency: We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.