<h3>Why Join Exadel</h3> <p>We’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks.</p> <p>From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next.</p> <p>What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving.</p> <h3>Project Duration <em> </em></h3> <p>6-month engagement with the possibility of extension</p> <h3>What You’ll Do </h3> <ul> <li>Lead structured technical discovery with the hardware and platform engineering teams to establish the API surface, platform readiness, and target workload definitions</li> <li>Author the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) documenting the integration approach, technology choices, and key design decisions</li> <li>Define the requirements baseline, functional and non-functional, and produce the risk register</li> <li>Negotiate and agree the revised Statement of Work for Phases 1 and 2 with the client</li> <li>Establish the reference workload definition and benchmark criteria to be used through the POC</li> <li>Maintain technical governance and architectural coherence across the integration build</li> <li>Direct the engineering team on component delivery: workload adapter, hardware dispatch client, telemetry bridge, and any required platform-side changes</li> <li>Manage the client relationship on a day-to-day basis: progress reporting, risk escalation, and gate reviews</li> <li>Review and sign off integration components before gate conditions are assessed</li> <li>Lead knowledge transfer and runbook acceptance sessions with client engineering teams</li> <li>Support the customer Proof of Value demonstration in an advisory capacity</li> </ul> <h3>What You Bring </h3> <ul> <li>Demonstrable background in cloud platform architecture, distributed systems, and API design — REST and gRPC in particular</li> <li>Experience integrating third-party hardware or specialised compute into cloud scheduling and resource management layers</li> <li>Familiarity with workload orchestration: Kubernetes, custom schedulers, resource plugins, or equivalent</li> <li>Working knowledge of observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable stacks</li> <li>Comfort operating across the full stack, from infrastructure (IaC, networking, cloud providers) to API and platform layers</li> <li>SRE background or equivalent: SLO definition, telemetry design, incident response, and operational documentation</li> <li>Ability to design for observability and failure modes from the outset, not as a post-build afterthought</li> <li>Experience producing runbooks and operational documentation for technical handover</li> <li>Proven ability to lead client-facing technical engagements, managing expectations, communicating risk, and maintaining trust in ambiguous early-stage programmes</li> <li>Comfortable working with non-traditional technical counterparts, such as hardware scientists who may not be experienced platform API producers</li> <li>Skilled at structured requirements elicitation under significant uncertainty — able to extract requirements through interviews, prototypes, and reference examples rather than documentation</li> <li>Experience producing Architecture Decision Records, revised SOW documents, and risk registers as formal engagement outputs</li> <li>Experience operating as a senior contractor or fractional leader, comfortable with part-time engagement structures and accountability for commercial gate conditions without full-time oversight</li> <li>Able to take ownership of engagement quality and client confidence independently</li> </ul> <h3>Nice to Have</h3> <ul> <li>Prior exposure to custom silicon, FPGA integration, or specialised AI accelerator hardware</li> <li>Experience in sovereign cloud, data sovereignty, or regulated compute environments</li> <li>Familiarity with AI/ML workload types: inference serving, training pipelines, batch processing</li> <li>Experience with M2M identity, workload authentication, and platform governance patterns</li> <li>Background in early-stage or venture-backed technology companies where engineering rigour and commercial pragmatism must coexist</li> </ul> <h3>English level</h3> <p>Upper-Intermediate</p> <h3>Legal & Hiring Information</h3> <ul> <li>Exadel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion across minority, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and more</li> <li>Reasonable accommodations are available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions</li> <li>Please note: this job description is not exhaustive. Duties and responsibilities may evolve based on business needs</li> </ul> <h3>Your Benefits at Exadel </h3> <p>Exadel benefits vary by location and contract type. Your recruiter will fill you in on the details.</p> <ul> <li>International projects</li> <li>In-office, hybrid, or remote flexibility</li> <li>Medical healthcare</li> <li>Recognition program</li> <li>Ongoing learning & reimbursement </li> <li>Well-being program</li> <li>Team events & local benefits </li> <li>Sports compensation </li> <li>Referral bonuses </li> <li>Top-tier equipment provision</li> </ul> <h3>Exadel Culture</h3> <p>We lead with trust, respect, and purpose. We believe in open dialogue, creative freedom, and mentorship that helps you grow, lead, and make a real difference. Ours is a culture where ideas are challenged, voices are heard, and your impact matters.</p>