GPU TAM at Vultr - Remote AI Cloud Role USA — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is listed as remote within the USA, meaning it requires US residency and likely compliance with US work authorization requirements. It is not suitable for international digital nomads without US work authorization, as it appears US-only.
Timezone flexibility: The TAM role involves recurring customer meetings, incident management, and real-time escalation support — all of which imply a need for overlapping business hours with US-based clients. Expect a largely synchronous schedule anchored to US Eastern or Pacific time windows. Pure async work is unlikely given the customer-facing, incident-response nature of the role.
Remote perks relevant to nomad-adjacent lifestyles:
- $500 home office setup stipend (year 1) + $400/year thereafter — useful for co-working spaces or gear upgrades.
- $75/month internet reimbursement helps offset connectivity costs.
- No mention of co-working or travel allowances beyond home office setup.
Salary context: At $115K–$140K USD annually, this is strong compensation. In Lisbon (Portugal), this far exceeds local cost of living (~$2,500–$3,500/month). However, since the role is US-restricted, working from abroad on a tourist or digital nomad visa would create tax and legal complications. US-based remote workers in lower cost-of-living cities like Austin or Denver would maximize purchasing power.
If you need true location independence without US restrictions, look for TAM roles at companies explicitly listing "worldwide remote."
Who We Are
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024, Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
Vultr Cares
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental, and vision plans
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Increased PTO at 3-year and 10-year anniversaries + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company-paid Wellable subscription
Join Vultr
The GPU-focused Technical Account Manager (TAM) leads the post-sales technical success of customers deploying large-scale AI, training, inference, and high-performance GPU workloads on Vultr's platform. This includes customers using NVIDIA GPU clusters, AMD GPU clusters, GPU VMs, and rack-scale bare-metal environments.
You will act as a trusted advisor across LLM training, fine-tuning, RAG workloads, distributed training frameworks, storage throughput requirements, multi-GPU scaling, and performance tuning. This role requires deep technical fluency and exceptional customer management skills to help AI/ML teams achieve predictable, cost-efficient, high-performance outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
AI/GPU Onboarding & Workload Architecture
- Lead onboarding for customers deploying GPU clusters (bare metal, VMs, or hybrid).
- Advise on cluster design: multi-GPU topology, NVLink/NVSwitch considerations, RDMA, Infiniband and RoCE Ethernet, networking throughput, and storage IOPS requirements.
- Guide customers in selecting GPU types and configurations based on workload (training, fine-tuning, inference, embeddings, RAG pipelines).
- Support distributed frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, DeepSpeed, Megatron, JAX, Ray, Mosaic, HuggingFace, etc.
- Advanced hands-on Kubernetes skills required.
- Advanced hands-on SLURM skills required.
Performance Optimization & Scaling
- Identify bottlenecks (network, storage, memory bandwidth).
- Provide tuning recommendations for batch size, mixed precision, parallelization strategies, and checkpointing.
- Help customers evaluate cost vs. performance tradeoffs (GPU mix, CPU pairing, instance types, cluster sizing).
Technical Relationship Ownership
- Own the long-term technical strategy across assigned GPU/AI accounts, including hyperscalers, labs, and high-growth AI startups.
- Host recurring technical review meetings, roadmap reviews, and optimization sessions.
- Define scaling plans, future GPU reservation needs, and capacity forecasting.
Incident & Escalation Management
- Partner with Support, SRE, Networking, NOC, and Product Management & Engineering to resolve high-urgency incidents.
- Manage outage communications, corrective action plans, and postmortem reviews with customers.
- Advocate for GPU reliability improvements and influence roadmap priorities.
Account Growth & Expansion
- Identify opportunities for expanded clusters, high-speed storage, or networking upgrades.
- Support Sales with technical validation and architecture diagrams needed for expansion.
Customer Advocacy & Product Feedback
- Provide structured feedback on existing and future GPU offerings, networking fabrics, storage platforms, and upcoming AI/ML platform features.
- Partner with Product on early access programs (new GPUs, pipelines, orchestration, etc.).
Qualifications
- 2–5+ years as an AI/ML Engineer, AI/ML Ops, Technical Account Manager, HPC Engineer, Sales/Solutions Engineer, or relevant technical role.
- Strong knowledge of GPU hardware architectures (NVIDIA/AMD), CUDA/ROCm, distributed training, and ML frameworks.
- Experience with Linux tuning and networking (Infiniband, RoCE fabrics).
- Experience with high-performance storage systems (DDN, NetApp, Vast, Weka, etc.).
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to both executives and engineering teams.
- Prior experience supporting hyperscale, AI labs, or large cluster deployments is a plus.
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is a plus.
Compensation
$115,000 – $140,000
This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background, and skill set.
Inclusion & Privacy
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Vultr will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable laws and will not conduct a background check until after an offer of employment has been extended and accepted.
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