Office and Facilities Manager, Groq
$78.5-117.8k
+ Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI semiconductor chip manufacturer
Open for applications
AI semiconductor chip manufacturer
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$78.5-117.8k
+ Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To increase developer velocity in machine learning by leading the way with simple, fast, innovative solutions.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 4 years directly relevant work experience in office management, facilities, or operations
- A passion for building a culture of community, creating a safe and cheerful work environment, and equipped with a “can do” attitude to think outside the box when issues arise
- Keen sense for organization and multitasking, as this role requires balancing many priorities and working from multiple locations
- Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, startup culture
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Operational and Accounting process, systems design and implementation, an understanding of upstream/downstream impacts
- Ability to work independently and influence others to meet deadlines
What the job involves
- Ensure the smooth operation of Groq's multiple worksites (Mountain View, San Jose, and Liberty Lake, WA) by streamlining administrative tasks, fostering collaboration, and providing a positive on-site experience for employees, ultimately driving company success and growth
- Employee safety: Partner with the Talent Team and key stakeholders to update office policies as necessary
- Workplace and space planning: Identify Operations and Engineering team needs, location identification, lease execution, and plan logistics of office/ lab space (moves or new office locations)
- Facilities management: coordinating with property management for service repairs and maintenance for all Groq locations. Liaise and cultivate working relationships with vendors such as building security, guard services, HVAC, janitorial staff, maintenance, etc
- Office upkeep: providing a clean and pleasant workplace experience for visiting employees. Maintaining well-stocked office and kitchen supplies across Groq locations. Keeping purchases within set budgets
- Vendor Management / Accounting: evaluate, onboard, and partner with vendors. Timely monthly payment of facilities invoices, bookkeeping and submission of expense reports
- Receptionist duties: badge and key distribution for all locations. Monitoring security cameras and guard reports. Escorting office/ lab visitors, answering Groq mobile phone calls. Administrative support includes redirecting employee inquiries to appropriate contacts
- Onsite Support: receive and coordinate deliveries for Castro office and Zanker lab (in person and remotely). Pick up mail from the Mountain View post office, sort, and distribute to appropriate teams. Coordinate package pickup. Manage outgoing mail and packages when necessary. As the onsite contact, the Office Manager provides support to ensure smooth company events, team celebrations, F2F meetings, and other ad hoc projects
Our take
Groq is an exciting semiconductor startup focused on creating advanced chips designed specifically for AI applications, particularly for AI inference, where models use trained data to deliver fast responses.
Groq aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance by focusing on speed and efficiency for AI deployment. While Nvidia's GPUs handle both training and running AI models, Groq's LPUs are optimized for inference tasks. With a recent $640M funding round, Groq plans to scale up and deploy over 100,000 LPUs by 2025.
To achieve this, the company has partnered with companies like Meta and Samsung, as well as sovereign entities like Saudi Aramco, showcasing the company's growth and potential. With its exciting technology, Groq is well-positioned to play a significant role in the AI chip market in the coming years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$640m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$300m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Jonathan Ross
(Founder & CEO)Majored in Mathematics and Computer Science at NYU. Joined Google as a Software Engineer in 2011, and was promoted to Hardware Engineer in 2013. Co-founded Google's Tensor Processing Unit. Was also a Rapid Evaluator at Google X, and then founded Groq in 2016, acting as its CTO before becoming the CEO in 2018.
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