Fortive

Fortive

Sr. Director, Platform & AI Infrastructure

Remote, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specified$134k-$249kDetected 13 days ago
SQLMongoDBVector DatabasesAzureCloud PlatformsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsRAGMLOpsIncident ResponseProcurementZero TrustLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Infrastructure-as-code, capacity planning, and reliability across CPU and GPU workloads.
  • Operations, performance, HA/DR, and roadmap for Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and similar.
  • Brief executives on reliability and risk.

Responsibilities

  • Own the AI/ML platform: GPU capacity strategy, model serving and inference latency, training and fine-tuning infrastructure, MLOps and evaluation pipelines, vector and feature stores, and the RAG and agentic patterns our product teams build on.
  • Partner with product engineering and architecture on build-vs-buy decisions across foundation model providers and open-source.
  • Build out the incident response program: on-call structure, severity definitions, incident command, communication standards, postmortems, and follow-through on systemic fixes.
  • Develop the observability stack across metrics, logs, traces, and synthetics.
  • Lead internal communication during incidents.
  • Lead a globally distributed team of managers and senior ICs.
  • Maintain a strong culture and leadership bench.
  • Familiarity with the modern AI stack: vector databases, RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation, and the build-vs-buy tradeoffs across foundation model providers and open-source.
  • About Gordian Gordian is the world's leading provider of facility and construction cost data, software and services for all phases of the building lifecycle.
  • From planning to design, procurement, construction and operations, Gordian's solutions help clients maximize efficiency, optimize cost savings and increase building quality.

Requirements

  • Required 10+ years in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or AI/ML infrastructure, with 5+ leading teams.
  • Production experience running ML/AI workloads at scale, including GPU infrastructure, model serving, MLOps, or LLM/inference platforms.

Skills

  • cloud infrastructure, data platforms, ML/AI infrastructure, incident response, and observability.
  • AI platform and production ML.

Compensation

  • The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 133,600.00 - 248,500.00
  • Pay Range The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 133,600.00 - 248,500.00

Benefits

  • Bonus or Equity This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.
  • We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
  • Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions.

Company info

  • Speak to customers when major incidents affect them.
  • Effective communicator with executives, the Board, customers, and the company during incidents.
  • We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit.
  • We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.

Equal opportunity

  • We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • equal opportunity employers.
  • Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment
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