Careers at Volta · London & Bay Area · We're hiring

Build what the
world runs on.

Volta is building the infrastructure that powers the AI era. We're looking for exceptional people who want to work on the hardest problems in compute — and see their work matter at a scale very few companies ever reach.

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Day 1
Live from week one
Your work is live and real from your first week
Global
London & Bay Area
Plus data centre sites worldwide
$20Bn
Capital behind us
Infrastructure capital behind everything we build
Founding
Join early
Early enough to shape how this company works

Five reasons this is unlike anywhere else you've worked

There are a lot of AI companies right now. Most of them are building software on top of compute that someone else owns. Volta is building the compute itself.

01 / Scale

Your work operates at a scale most engineers never touch

Gigascale data centres across Europe and the US. Systems you design handle hundreds of thousands of GPUs. There is no sandbox. This is the real thing.

02 / Ownership

Founding-stage ownership with institutional-stage resources

Backed by $20Bn in infrastructure capital, but early enough that the decisions you make now will define how Volta operates for a decade.

03 / Pace

We move faster than anyone in this industry

65 days from signing to a live data centre. Co-founder-led decisions, no committee layers, no approval chains that slow execution to a crawl.

04 / Team

You'll work alongside people who've done this at the highest level

CFO from Citigroup. Cloud VP from NVIDIA. Data centre lead from Meta and Oracle. Not advisors — your colleagues.

05 / Mission

The work has a purpose you can explain to anyone

Making compute a utility — reliable, scalable, available to anyone who needs it. A mission that extends far beyond Volta's commercial interests.

What we believe in, and how we work

Values at Volta are not a wall poster. They're the criteria we use when making hard decisions — about what to build, who to hire, and how to treat each other under pressure.

"The engineers who work here will spend their careers having built something that actually mattered — the infrastructure that the AI era ran on. That's a rare thing to be able to say."
Volta Engineering Leadership
Speed with purpose

Move fast. Land well.

Speed is how we create advantage. We make decisions quickly and learn from what we build. Pace is not recklessness — every fast decision is grounded in clear thinking.

Build for permanence

Long-term thinking. Short-term execution.

We are building infrastructure that needs to run for decades. We think in long arcs. We execute in short sprints.

Radical ownership

If it matters, own it completely.

Ownership at Volta is an attitude, not a job title. If something is important, someone takes full responsibility and drives it to completion.

Technical rigour

Substance over spectacle.

We operate in a market full of big claims and thin substance. We care about technical credibility. Depth matters here.

Straight talking

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

Disagreements happen in the room, not after it. We trust each other enough to be honest, and we expect honesty in return.

Democratise access

Compute for everyone.

Electricity became a utility. Compute should too. We build with that purpose in mind: infrastructure that extends access for anyone who wants to build with AI.

For Engineers

The problems here are genuinely hard. That's the point.

Most engineering jobs ask you to build on top of someone else's foundation. At Volta, you are the foundation. How do you schedule a hundred thousand GPUs without a single wasted FLOP? How do you build a networking fabric that moves petabytes between nodes with zero congestion?

"These aren't toy problems. They are engineering challenges at a scale that very few people in the world are working on."
Volta Engineering Leadership

Platform & Systems

Own infrastructure at an order of magnitude most engineers never see. Compute orchestration, OS configuration, firmware management, and the networking fabric connecting hundreds of thousands of GPUs.

Software Engineering

Build the control planes, APIs, schedulers, and orchestration systems that manage our GPU fleet. Systems where correctness and reliability are commercial obligations — not abstract goals.

Site Reliability & DevOps

Five-nines reliability is a contract, not a goal. Define the SLIs, build automation that self-heals at 3am, and design incident response frameworks for real infrastructure at scale.

Machine Learning & Data

Predictive capacity models, GPU utilisation optimisation, anomaly detection across thousands of nodes. Your dataset is the live operation of one of the world's largest GPU fleets.

Technical Environment

Stack

NVIDIA Blackwell & Rubin GPUs
InfiniBand & Spectrum-X
NVMe-oF storage
Kubernetes & Slurm
Linux · Python, Go, Rust
Terraform · Prometheus
Custom control plane software

Scale

500,000 GPUs by 2027
Multi-site ops, Europe & US
1GW+ contracted power
Petabyte-scale storage
Training clusters running weeks
without interruption

How We Work

Small, high-ownership teams
Direct access to founders
No bureaucratic gates
On-call ownership, proper tooling
Regular architecture review
with real stakes

We invest in the people building this company

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Competitive Salary

Top-of-market base compensation benchmarked against the best infrastructure and AI companies globally.

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Meaningful Equity

Significant equity stake with four-year vesting and a one-year cliff. You're building this company — the upside should reflect that.

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Full Healthcare

Comprehensive private medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family. No excess, no surprises.

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Global from Day One

London and Bay Area HQ with data centre operations across Europe and US. Travel budget for site visits included.

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Learning Budget

£3,000 / $4,000 annual budget for conferences, courses, books, and certifications — used however you see fit.

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Generous Holiday

30 days annual leave plus public holidays. We mean it — we track that people actually use it.

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Parental Leave

Enhanced parental leave for all parents — primary and secondary caregivers — with phased return options.

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Equipment Budget

Full home office setup budget and your choice of machine. If you need it to do the work well, we'll get it.

We're hiring across every discipline

All Engineering Operations Product Commercial
Role Department Level Location
Staff Software Engineer — Platform Control Plane Engineering P5 London or Bay Area · Hybrid Apply →
Senior Software Engineer — Orchestration & Scheduling Engineering P4 London · Hybrid Apply →
Senior Platform Engineer — Compute & OS Engineering P4 London or Bay Area · Hybrid Apply →
Staff Site Reliability Engineer Engineering P5 London · Hybrid Apply →
Senior Network Engineer — Data Centre Fabric Engineering P4 On-site · Europe Apply →
Senior ML Engineer — GPU Utilisation & Optimisation Engineering P4 London or Bay Area · Hybrid Apply →
Director, Data Centre Operations Operations M4 Europe · On-site Apply →
Senior Fleet Engineer — GPU Hardware Lifecycle Operations P4 On-site · Europe Apply →
Senior Product Manager — Volta Cloud Platform Product P4 London or Bay Area · Hybrid Apply →
Head of Sales — EMEA Commercial M4 London · Hybrid Apply →
Senior Solutions Architect Commercial P4 London or Bay Area · Hybrid Apply →
Head of Talent Acquisition People M3 London · Hybrid Apply →

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Join us at the beginning of something important

The decisions made in the next two years will shape how AI infrastructure is built for a generation. We're looking for people who understand the magnitude of that — and want to be part of it.

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Talk to someone before you apply

We know that joining an early-stage company is a significant decision. If you want to speak to someone on the team before committing to an application — about the culture, the work, or what we're building — we're happy to have that conversation.

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