About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re hiring a VP, Commissioning & Validation to own commissioning as a global discipline across our data center campuses in the Americas, EMEA and APAC. You’ll set the standard that decides when our critical infrastructure is ready for service, and you’ll put your name to it.

You’ll build and lead a small central team that writes, owns and validates the commissioning scripts every campus runs. The team authors and validates the standard but doesn’t do the field work. Execution is spread across four groups: engineering provides the design basis, construction and vendor crews carry out start-up, local site commissioning teams run the acceptance gates, and operations accepts the facility. You’ll keep all four working to one standard, and you’ll work closely with our controls engineering team so equipment and its automation are always tested together as one system.

The core of the role is proving equipment where it’s built, not finding problems in the field. You’ll run the same validated script at the vendor’s factory and again on site, with the same acceptance criteria, and keep one traceable record for each serial number from factory test to final site acceptance. The commissioning certificates your office issues carry contractual Service Commencement consequences, so this role has real authority over readiness, acceptance and schedule.

What you’ll be doing

Own the global commissioning standard

Publish and version-control one global commissioning script library (L1–L5 and integrated systems testing), with controlled UL/NEC and IEC regional variants so no region forks the standard
Define Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) protocols, pass/fail criteria and witness requirements for every critical equipment class
Co-own controls testing with the controls engineering team, building sequence-of-operation, BMS/EPMS point-to-point and alarm tests into every master script
Feed every field finding back into the library within one release cycle, and own the deferred and seasonal test registers

Build and run the FAT program

Run a global FAT calendar with every major OEM, with script releases timed to procurement milestones and witness assignments for each test
Require witnessed FAT for the most critical equipment (UPS, MV switchgear, chillers, CDU skids, electrical power modules and cooling-plant modules), and apply sample-based witnessing with full data submission to the rest
Hold green-tag authority, so no critical equipment ships without passing its approved script
Work with Supply Chain to write FAT requirements, witness rights, script authority and data deliverables into every purchase order and owner-furnished equipment contract
Reconcile OEM start-up procedures to Nscale scripts before mobilization

Hold commissioning and acceptance authority

Issue the commissioning certificate required before any phase, building or leased space is accepted, including third-party and colocation capacity, where your standards become the due-diligence checklist
Decide script content, pass/fail criteria, witness requirements and certificate issuance. Your agreement is required for any script deviation, any acceptance with open critical items, and any reduction in test scope under schedule pressure