---
title: 'IT & Infrastructure Lead at Netpreme'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/it-infrastructure-lead-netpreme-santa-clara-mgaegqyzna4j'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-20'
---

# IT & Infrastructure Lead at Netpreme

- **Company:** Netpreme
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/netpreme/f3b51e38-fc37-4a00-b7a5-b412ffb8f0cb

## Job description

## About the Role

We are seeking an IT & Infrastructure Lead to serve as Netpreme's first dedicated IT and infrastructure hire. You will own the systems, tools, and infrastructure the company operates on, from the software and devices our team relies on daily to the server environment and compute that power our work. You will be part of an early-stage, high-growth startup working on solutions in the semiconductor and AI infrastructure space. As our founding IT hire, you will help define this function, establish standards that scale with the company, and grow alongside it. This role will be performed onsite from our office in Santa Clara, CA. Essential Duties & Responsibilities IT & Systems

- Administer and provision the company's core software stack, managing accounts, access, and licensing as the team scales.
- Lead employee onboarding and offboarding, including hardware provisioning, account creation, and access management across the full employee lifecycle.
- Own endpoint security and device management to maintain a secure, compliant fleet.
- Administer the company's networking and secure-access infrastructure (VPN/zero-trust networking).
- Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day IT support, and maintain internal documentation and standards.

Infrastructure & Compute

- Manage Netpreme's colocation server environment, including provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and uptime.
- Administer Linux/Unix systems and supporting infrastructure.
- Plan and scale the company's compute capacity as the team and workloads grow — forecasting requirements, adding capacity, and ensuring reliability.
- Apply a DevOps approach to infrastructure: automate repetitive processes, document systems thoroughly, and build for scale.

Required Qualifications

- Demonstrated experience across both IT operations and infrastructure/systems administration.
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems administration and networking fundamentals.
- Experience administering SaaS applications, identity and access management, endpoint security, and EDA tools.
- Ability to work independently and resourcefully as the owner of this function.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to support technical and non-technical colleagues effectively.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience as an early IT/infrastructure hire at a startup.
- Familiarity with colocation or data-center environments and compute capacity planning.
- Scripting and automation experience (Bash, Python, or similar).
- Exposure to high-performance computing or GPU/accelerator infrastructure.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus and early-stage equity grant
- 100% employer-paid Health, Dental, and Vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) match with immediate vesting, and access to financial advisors to help you reach your financial goals
- 100% employer-paid Life, Disability, and AD&D insurance, plus a fitness stipend and wellness & mental health perks
- Generous PTO: 20 vacation days, 15 company holidays (including 3 floating days of your choosing)
- Daily lunch stipend
- Enterprise-level Claude & ChatGPT access with a generous token budget
- Well-equipped, sunny offices in Santa Clara, CA & Cambridge, MA with on-site parking and EV charging; on-site fitness center in Santa Clara; gym discounts near our Cambridge office
- Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to one of our office hubs
- A collaborative, continuous-learning environment with smart, dedicated colleagues building the next generation of high-performance computing architecture

The Opportunity

- Impact: We are tackling a fundamental challenge at the infrastructure layer: unlocking greater AI capability while dramatically improving efficiency. The work we do here compounds across state-of-the-art AI models, systems, and real-world applications.
- Timing: Joining now means real ownership of the company and meaningful influence over how we build and scale. You'll work from first principles, move quickly from insight to execution, and see your contributions directly reflected in what we build.
- Culture: You'll work alongside a group of people who care deeply about rigor, clarity, and impact.

## About Netpreme

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Netpreme is building the world's first Memory Processing Unit (MPU) and Networked Memory Tiering™ technology to solve the memory capacity bottleneck for AI accelerators.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Stealth/Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (with a second office in Santa Clara, California)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Nikita Lazarev (Co-Founder and CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Semiconductor design, AI infrastructure, high-performance networking, computer architecture
- Target customers: B2B, specifically AI/ML infrastructure providers, hyperscalers, and enterprises deploying large-scale AI models
- Mission or purpose statement: "Our mission is to build and pioneer the next-gen memory processing systems that augments AI accelerators memory capacity by 1000x or more." [netpreme.com](https://netpreme.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **[X-Mem™ Networked Memory Tiering™]**: A hardware-software solution that integrates with existing systems using standard interfaces, working transparently with ML systems to extend XPU memory capacity by 100x. The core technology is the **Memory Processing Unit (MPU)**, a new class of chip designed to create a high-bandwidth, low-latency memory fabric for AI workloads. [netpreme.com](https://netpreme.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company, likely early-stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not disclosed; backed by "a group of visionary partners" [netpreme.com](https://netpreme.com/about). Investors include Calvin Chin (Board Member) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netpreme).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Calvin Chin (Investor/Board Member); the company lists "industry leaders" as partners for bringing X-Mem technology to market. [netpreme.com](https://netpreme.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapidly growing team (12 employees as of mid-2025, with +8.3% monthly growth); website traffic growing +170.9% month-over-month; active hiring with 7 open positions [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netpreme). The company is tackling a fundamental, well-recognized bottleneck in AI compute.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover on a new chip category**: Netpreme is pioneering the "Memory Processing Unit" (MPU), a dedicated chip class that sits between compute and memory, unlike competitors who rely on software-only or incremental hardware approaches.
- **Fundamental approach**: They are solving the memory wall problem at the infrastructure layer, which compounds across all state-of-the-art AI models and systems. Their technology promises a 100x memory extension, which is a step-change improvement over existing solutions.
- **Expert team**: The team includes world-class experts from top institutions (MIT, Stanford, Apple, Google) in semiconductor design, computer architecture, high-performance networking, and AI systems [netpreme.com](https://netpreme.com/about) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netpreme).

## Strategic Focus
- **Build the fastest memory-to-compute fabric**: The company's immediate priority is developing and tapeouting its ASIC (the MPU) and the accompanying software stack (ML kernels, performance models, inference systems).
- **Enable next-gen AI inference**: They are specifically designing systems for LLM inference with expandable distributed memory, targeting the critical bottleneck that limits model size and context windows.
- **Hire founding team members**: With 7 active job postings for "Member of Technical Staff" roles across ASIC design, verification, architecture, ML systems, performance modeling, and ML kernels, the company is actively building its core technical team [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/netpreme).

## Why Work Here
- **Impact at the infrastructure layer**: The company is solving "a fundamental challenge" that directly enables more powerful AI. Work done here has multiplicative effects across the entire AI ecosystem.
- **Ownership and speed**: As an early-stage startup, employees "work from first principles, move quickly from insight to execution," and see their contributions directly reflected in what they build. The culture emphasizes "rigor, clarity, and impact."
- **Culture of intellectual fearlessness**: The company values "thoughtful disagreement, fast learning, and intellectual fearlessness," making it ideal for engineers and researchers who want to push boundaries.
- **Location flexibility**: Offices in both **Cambridge, MA** (near MIT/Harvard) and **Santa Clara, CA** (in the heart of Silicon Valley), offering a choice of two major tech hubs. Roles are listed as on-site/hybrid.
- **Team pedigree**: Work alongside experts from MIT, Stanford, Apple, Google, and SpaceX [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netpreme).

## Sources
1. [netpreme.com](https://netpreme.com/)
2. [netpreme.com/about](https://netpreme.com/about)
3. [netpreme.com/careers](https://netpreme.com/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/netpreme)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netpreme)

## Other roles at Netpreme

- [Member of Technical Staff, Performance Modeling](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-performance-modeling-netpreme-santa-clara-ca-or-boston-7ad8e7g54bzn) — Santa Clara CA OR Boston, MA
- [Director, ASIC Verification](https://feeny.ai/job/director-asic-verification-netpreme-santa-clara-j1nevr7g4076) — Santa Clara, CA
- [Member of Technical Staff, ASIC Verification](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-asic-verification-netpreme-santa-clara-ca-or-boston-mv9bpsjbpwwa) — Santa Clara CA OR Boston, MA
- [Member of Technical Staff, ASIC Design](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-asic-design-netpreme-santa-clara-1dgpe9zd4905) — Santa Clara, CA