Full-Time

Hosting Solutions Architect

AI & Infrastructure

Inflect

Inflect

11-50 employees

Marketplace and advisory for internet infrastructure

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Sales & Solution Engineering (2)
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Requirements
  • Expert knowledge of colocation, GPUaaS, bare metal, and power/density optimization.
  • Strong problem-solving skills for enterprise-scale architecture and data validation.
Responsibilities
  • Design end-to-end hosting and colocation solutions, including GPUaaS, bare metal, and complex capacity/power planning.
  • Present technical architectures and advisory solutions to executive stakeholders, driving deal progression and business outcomes.
  • Shape enterprise solutions that scale across cloud and on-premise integrations, ensuring they meet the high-growth needs of our clients.
  • Technical validation of supplier offerings for reliability, scalability, and compliance, ensuring they meet Inflect’s "marketplace-ready" standards.
  • Locate, validate, and forecast available space, power, and land across our partner ecosystem to give Sales actionable foresight.
  • Ensure accurate supplier technical data is integrated into the platform to drive AI-driven recommendations and trust.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to validate data ingestion and ensure hosting solutions are properly represented on the platform.
  • Partner with Sales and Supplier Managers to deliver executive-ready presentations and technical collateral that close high-value deals.
  • Continuous optimization: refine solution frameworks to be repeatable, scalable, and consistently high-quality.
Desired Qualifications
  • Executive presentation and client-facing skills suitable for Fortune 500 stakeholders.
  • Market intelligence mindset for forecasting supplier capacity, land, and power opportunities.
  • Ability to translate dense supplier offerings and market intelligence into repeatable, scalable client-ready solutions.
  • Familiarity with AI-driven intelligence systems and how to leverage data for marketplace solutions.

Inflect operates as an online marketplace and advisory firm for digital infrastructure, helping buyers research, compare, and purchase services such as data centers, colocation, network connectivity, and cloud on-ramps from multiple providers. Its platform provides core tools like the Data Center Marketplace, Bare Metal Marketplace, and Routefinder to deliver actionable data before buyers engage providers for quotes and contracting. Buyers use the free research platform, while Inflect earns revenue by charging service fees to providers when a deal is facilitated through the marketplace. The company aims to make IT procurement more transparent and efficient, differentiating itself by offering open service specifications and provider information, combining advisory input with self-serve research to support hybrid cloud deployments across many providers.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$3M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2016

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • AI demand shifts data centers to Thailand and Indonesia per 2025 Summit.
  • Advanced quoting launched recently delivers instant pricing configurations.
  • New Partner Program connects providers with high-intent buyers directly.

What critics are saying

  • CoreSite's Flexential acquisition on December 15, 2024, captures buyer traffic.
  • Equinix Fabric in Q1 2026 automates procurement across 260 data centers.
  • Digital Realty's PlatformDIGITAL v5 in February 2026 bundles bare metal free.

What makes Inflect unique

  • Inflect's Routefinder tool maps network connectivity options transparently.
  • Global Marketplace launched in May 2018 provides open service specs worldwide.
  • Free for buyers with provider fees enables neutral procurement platform.

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TelecomNewsroom
Dec 9th, 2025
AI's Impact on Global Market Expansion Patterns: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining the Future of Global Infrastructure

AI's Impact on Global Market Expansion Patterns: how artificial intelligence is redefining the future of Global infrastructure. At infra/STRUCTURE Summit 2025, industry leaders from Inflect, NTT and NextDC explored how AI is accelerating development timelines, reshaping deal structures, and redrawing the global data center map. The infra/STRUCTURE Summit 2025, held at The Wynn Las Vegas from October 15 - 16, 2025 convened the brightest minds in digital infrastructure to explore the seismic shifts underway in the age of artificial intelligence. Among the most forward-looking sessions was "AI Impact on Global Market Expansion Patterns," a discussion that unpacked how AI is transforming where and how data centers are developed, financed, and operated worldwide. Moderated by Swapna Subramani, Research Director, IMEA, for Structure Research, the panel featured leading executives including Mike Nguyen, CEO, Inflect; Steve Lim, SVP, Marketing & GTM, NTT Global Data Centers; Craig Scroggie, CEO and Managing Director, NEXTDC. Together, they examined how the explosive demand for AI compute power is pushing developers to rethink long-held assumptions about geography, energy, and risk. AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Expansion For decades, site selection decisions revolved around a handful of core variables: power cost, connectivity, and proximity to major user populations. But in 2025, those rules are being rewritten by the unprecedented scale of AI workloads. Regions once considered secondary are suddenly front-runners. Scroggie noted how saturation in markets like Singapore and Hong Kong has forced expansion across Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India, each now racing to deliver power, land, and permitting capacity fast enough to attract global hyperscalers. "You can't build large campuses in Singapore anymore," Scroggie said. "But throughout Southeast Asia, we're seeing rapid acceleration as operators balance scale, sustainability, and access to emerging population centers." The panelists agreed that energy constraints, not capital, are now the primary limiting factor. "The short term is about finding locations where power exists at scale," explained Scroggie. "The longer-term challenge is developing new storage and generation models to make that power sustainable."

TMCnet
Jan 15th, 2023
Inflect Introduces Advanced Quoting Capabilities to its Portal and announces new Partner Program

Inflect, Inc., the world's leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure, today announced the launch of advanced quoting capabilities in its portal and a new Partner Program, making it easier than ever for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure to connect and transact.

KSN
Sep 28th, 2022
Inflect, Inc. promotes Tim Hoffman to SVP of Product and Engineering

Inflect, Inc., the world's leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of digital infrastructure, announces the promotion of Tim Hoffman to SVP of Strategy and appointment of David McCullough to SVP of Product and Engineering.