Infrastructure Delivery Manager, New Sites

The posting, as Groq wrote it

About Groq
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the world's fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads.

With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, we're uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and it's still wide open. Now let's go build it!

Mission
Groq builds and operates AI inference infrastructure. Groq owns the hardware and controls access to it through software that Groq develops and manages. New sites are ground-up developments in leased or build-to-suit facilities that take longer and carry more risk than retrofits of existing space.

As Infrastructure Delivery Manager , you are the single owner of new sites from executed contracts through customer acceptance and handover to the Site Manager. The assigned sites are your full-time assignments. You direct the owner's representative, general contractor, utility, and vendor interfaces, and you hold the schedules, budgets, and gates for the sites.

Location: Dallas, TX. Expect 40 to 50 percent travel, including extended time at the assigned site during construction and commissioning.

Responsibilities
Site ownership

• Own the integrated schedule, budget, risk register, and decision log for the assigned site from contract execution to customer acceptance.
• Take over the site from Site Procurement at contract execution, including the lease or development agreement, entitlement status, and committed delivery obligations. Confirm each obligation is tracked and assigned.
• Manage the owner's representative, design team, general contractor, and specialty contractors. Review designs, drawings, change orders, and pay applications against Groq's power, cooling, space, network, and security requirements.
• Drive utility and power interconnect milestones, including studies, agreements, long-lead electrical equipment, and energization dates, with the landlord, utility, and Groq energy and engineering teams.
• Track permitting, inspections, and entitlement conditions that affect the critical path.

Hardware and integration

• Align the construction schedule with hardware production, shipment, and delivery commitments from Hardware Procurement. Sequence deliveries to site readiness and avoid storing equipment in unfinished space.
• Coordinate rack installation, integration, cabling, and network turn-up with Groq engineering, OEMs, and integrators.

Commissioning and acceptance

• Manage the owners representative’s commissioning program, from factory and site acceptance tests through integrated systems testing, with the commissioning agent and Groq engineering.
• Coordinate burn-in, NVIDIA certification, Groq software validation, and customer acceptance testing, and hold each gate against its exit criteria.
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