Lyceum - Head of Operations (GPU Fleet)
Requirements
• A track record of bringing physical infrastructure online at scale, ideally data centers, GPU or HPC clusters, or comparable hardware-heavy environments • You have owned the whole picture, from capacity and suppliers to deployment and live operations, not one slice of it • Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking. You see the whole board, from site selection to unit economics • Enough technical depth to hold your own with engineers and vendors on power, cooling, networking and hardware • Strong programme management: you run complex projects with many parties against hard deadlines • Confidence negotiating and managing contracts with data centers, OEMs and suppliers • You have built and led teams from scratch and still go deep into the details yourself • Very high sense of urgency and ownership • You make good decisions fast with incomplete information and prefer momentum over perfection • Strong written and verbal communication in English, German is a plus. Willingness to travel across Europe
Responsibilities
• Secure data center capacity across Europe: power, liquid cooling, space, connectivity and colocation leases • Own relationships with OEMs and suppliers for servers, networking and storage, and manage lead times so hardware arrives when we need it • Run every deployment as a programme, from logistics and installation to burn-in, acceptance and handover to engineering • Keep the financing side of deployments clean: schedules, drawdown milestones, asset records, insurance and lender reporting • Run the live fleet together with engineering: availability, incidents, RMAs, warranty, spares and remote hands • Own supply-side contracts, renewals and SLAs, and drive down cost per GPU-hour • Build the operations team and the operating rhythm that lets us scale deployments without scaling chaos
Benefits
• Outstanding team: Work with some of the best engineers in the world, coming from hedge funds, big tech, AI startups and top universities • Once in a lifetime opportunity: Early-stage company in the fastest-growing market in the world • Ownership: Shape how European AI companies access GPU compute • European mission: Build sovereign, GDPR-compliant AI infrastructure for the next generation of deep-tech
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