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Sentiro Partners | Retained Executive Search for AI, Product, Data, Quant and Frontier Technology

Sentiro Partners is a retained executive search firm headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, operating globally across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The firm was founded in 2025 by Adrian Clarke and specialises in technically demanding leadership markets: artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantitative finance, capital markets, iGaming and gambling, semiconductors, and frontier technology.

What we do

Sentiro Partners works on a retained-only basis. Every mandate follows a four-stage methodology: IMMERSE (deep briefing and market definition), SCOUT (systematic market mapping and sourcing), ASSESS (structured evaluation against calibrated benchmarks), and DELIVER (offer management and onboarding support).

Roles we place

Chief AI Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Product Officer, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and capital markets lawyers, VP of Machine Learning, Head of AI Research, foundation model and post-training researchers, alignment and safety researchers, quantitative researchers and quantitative developers, low-latency engineers, data science executives, and senior leadership for iGaming and gambling operators.

Who we serve

Frontier AI laboratories, quantitative trading firms and hedge funds, specialty finance firms, technology companies, iGaming and gambling operators, semiconductor companies, and high-growth venture-backed startups.

Practices

About the founder

Adrian Clarke is Founder and Principal of Sentiro Partners. His career spans executive search at Korn Ferry across EMEA in technology, digital and data, and an in-house role as global Head of Executive Search at Analog Devices, a Fortune 500 semiconductor company, where he built the search function from scratch.

Contact

Sentiro Partners, 71 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 857 580 132
Email: explore@sentiropartners.com

Research & Insights

Sentiro Partners publishes thought leadership on AI talent markets, executive search trends, and frontier technology leadership. Topics include machine learning hiring, frontier AI lab talent strategy, quantitative research hiring, and the future of AI executive roles.

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AI Infrastructure & Neocloud

AI INFRASTRUCTURE& NEOCLOUDEXECUTIVE SEARCH

Talent for the infrastructure powering the AI economy.

GPU compute to production deployment

AI is increasingly an infrastructure problem. Sentiro Partners works with founders, investors and infrastructure leaders to identify the executives and highly specialised engineers building GPU compute, high-performance networks, distributed systems, inference platforms and large-scale AI infrastructure.

Section 01

The infrastructure beneath intelligence.

Building modern AI infrastructure requires unusually interdisciplinary talent.

A single platform can sit at the intersection of GPU hardware, distributed systems, Linux, networking, schedulers, storage, Kubernetes, Slurm, observability, data-centre engineering and machine learning workloads.

The strongest engineers in this market are correspondingly difficult to identify through conventional technology recruitment.

Sentiro Partners maps the specialist talent ecosystems behind AI compute and approaches the people capable of designing, deploying and operating these systems at meaningful scale.

We search for the people building the systems beneath the models.

Not the models themselves.

An interdisciplinary stack

GPU hardware and accelerated computing.

Distributed systems and Linux engineering.

Networking and GPU fabrics.

Schedulers and storage systems.

Kubernetes and Slurm orchestration.

Observability and fleet reliability.

Data-centre engineering and power and cooling.

Machine learning workloads and inference.

Few engineers sit across all of it. We find the ones who do.

Section 04

LEADERSHIP FOR
AI INFRASTRUCTURE

The infrastructure organisation is increasingly becoming one of the most strategically important functions inside AI companies.

Our searches can extend from executive leadership through Principal, Distinguished and Staff-level individual contributors where the scarcity or strategic importance of the capability warrants a search-led approach.

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Executive & senior technical searches

Chief Technology Officer
Chief Infrastructure Officer
VP Infrastructure
VP Engineering
VP Platform Engineering
Head of AI Infrastructure
Head of GPU Infrastructure
Head of Compute
Head of HPC
Head of Networking
Head of Infrastructure Engineering
Head of Reliability
Head of Production Engineering
Head of Infrastructure Operations
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Head of Solutions Engineering

Section 05

WHO WE WORK WITH

The organisations building, operating and financing the infrastructure behind modern AI.

Neoclouds

Companies building GPU-native cloud platforms and specialised accelerated compute infrastructure.

AI Infrastructure Startups

Venture-backed businesses creating new layers across compute, orchestration, networking, observability, inference and developer infrastructure.

Inference Platforms

Companies solving the deployment, performance and economics of serving AI models in production.

Frontier AI Companies

Research organisations building the compute and ML systems required for training, post-training and inference.

Sovereign AI & AI Factories

Organisations developing nationally or regionally controlled AI compute environments and large-scale accelerated infrastructure.

Data Centre & Compute Infrastructure Companies

Businesses building the physical infrastructure required to support increasingly dense AI workloads.

Investors

Venture capital, growth equity and private equity investors assessing, building or scaling businesses across AI compute and infrastructure.

Section 06

FOR FOUNDERS & INVESTORS

Building the organisation behind the infrastructure.

The earliest infrastructure hires can have an outsized impact on technical architecture, reliability, customer delivery and ultimately enterprise value. Sentiro Partners works with founders and investors before and after investment to understand the talent market around an AI infrastructure company.

Executive & Technical Search

Executive search
Founding engineer search
Principal and Staff engineering search
Leadership upgrades
Team build-outs
Succession search
Critical technical hires

Talent Intelligence

Competitor talent mapping
Organisational benchmarking
Compensation intelligence
Location and talent-pool analysis
Technical leadership mapping
Key-person risk analysis
Talent due diligence
Organisation design intelligence

For an early-stage infrastructure business, the question is often larger than "who should we hire?"

Where does the capability exist, who has built it before, and what organisation needs to exist around them?

That is where our work starts.

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Section 07

AN UNUSUALLY SPECIALISED TALENT MARKET

AI infrastructure talent does not sit neatly inside a conventional software engineering market.

The relevant engineer may currently work inside a GPU cloud, hyperscaler, frontier AI laboratory, HPC organisation, semiconductor company, networking business, autonomous systems company or high-performance computing environment.

Sentiro Partners searches horizontally across these ecosystems. This allows us to identify people based on the systems they have actually built rather than simply the company or job title they currently hold.

We search by the system built, not the logo on the CV.

That is where the real talent market sits.

The ecosystems we search across

GPU Clouds
Hyperscalers
AI Labs
Semiconductors
Networking
HPC
Data Centres
ML Platforms

Section 08

GLOBAL AI INFRASTRUCTURE SEARCH

AI infrastructure talent is global.

Sentiro Partners conducts searches across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, continental Europe and other major technology markets, allowing clients to assess specialist talent beyond a single local hiring pool.

We work particularly closely with organisations where technical scarcity makes conventional recruitment ineffective.

United States

AI infrastructure hubs across the US coasts, Texas and emerging compute clusters.

United Kingdom

London and the UK's broader AI, compute and deep-tech ecosystem.

Ireland

Dublin as a strategic European entry point for AI infrastructure and data-centre investment.

Continental Europe

Germany, France, the Netherlands and the Nordics across compute, inference and AI factories.

AI Infrastructure Executive Search: Frequently Asked Questions

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BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM
BEHIND THE NEXT AI

Whether you are building a GPU cloud, inference platform, AI factory or entirely new layer of the AI infrastructure stack, the relevant talent market is finite.

We help you find the people who have already solved the hardest parts.

Discuss an AI Infrastructure Search

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