Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations

Role Overview

Velaura AI is seeking an experienced Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations to own IT and infrastructure end to end: the hybrid compute environment our designers depend on, the security program that protects our design IP, the systems that support our development, and the team that runs all of it. You'll lead our existing IT team and grow it.

We are looking for someone senior enough to set a 12–24 month architecture direction and hands-on enough to be in the middle of all major IT decisions such as storage scaling, COLO expansion, uptime while managing all vendor negotiation. The ideal candidate will be productive on day one, at cohort scale. Additionally they will:

• Ensure Compute and storage capacity is planned ahead of demand rather than in reaction to it; queue wait times and storage performance are measured and trending the right way.
• A new software engineer starts with repo access, a working build environment, and compute quota provisioned before they log in.
• IAM, endpoint, and access controls are in place and documented well enough to pass a customer security audit.
• A disaster-recovery plan exists for every system a tape-out depends on, and it has been tested.
• Hands-on — you'd rather be inside the architecture and the troubleshooting than above it
• Scale-minded — you build for the company we're becoming, not the one we are today
• Engineering-oriented — you treat compute availability and storage performance as product-schedule items, because they are
• Security-conscious — you treat design data as the crown jewels and still find ways to say yes to engineers
• Pragmatic — you balance real controls against the speed a fast-growing company needs
• Steady — outages, security incidents, hiring waves, lab problems, IT scale problems and hard deadlines don't rattle you

Why Velaura?

Velaura is building next-generation compute technology for cloud, edge, and Physical AI. Our solutions will enable robots, autonomous systems, drones, and other intelligent machines to operate efficiently in the physical world.
This is an opportunity to help build foundational technology at a time when the industry is undergoing fundamental change. You will work alongside experienced leaders, architects, engineers, and operators who have delivered industry-defining products across mobile, cloud, semiconductor, and AI platforms. If you enjoy solving difficult problems, working across disciplines, and helping shape the future of Physical AI, we would love to hear from you.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Accommodations

Velaura is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. We also take affirmative action to offer employment
opportunities to minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

Velaura is committed to working with qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants who would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or who need special assistance or a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact us at: [email protected]. This contact
information is for accommodation requests only. Evaluation of requests for reasonable accommodation will be determined on a case-by-case basis.