Head of Solutions Architecture - AI Infrastructure

Company Description

Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. https://www.mirantis.com/

Job Description

About the Role & Mission

AI infrastructure is undergoing a generational shift. Disaggregated, raw GPU hardware must be transformed into multi-tenant, production-ready, and sovereign AI clouds - without locking enterprises into a single hyperscaler or hardware vendor. That is where k0rdent AI by Mirantis comes in.

k0rdent AI serves as the declarative "super control plane" that manages complex, heterogeneous GPU infrastructure from Metal-to-Model™. We are hiring a Head of Solutions Architecture to own the technical win, build our pre-sales organization from the ground up, and lead the architecture strategy on high-value, long-cycle compute deals.

This is not a demo-jockey role. You will be an executive technical partner to NeoClouds, AI-native startups, enterprise AI teams, research labs, and sovereign buyers. You will lead high-stakes architecture debates on interconnect topologies, build TCO models that challenge hyperscaler economics, construct reusable pre-sales machinery, and