Fleet Operations Manager

Location:

Preference for candidates based in Palo Alto, CA or willing to relocate. This role requires frequent travel to deployment sites. Candidates must be willing and able to travel to remote renewable energy locations on short notice for commissioning, troubleshooting, and contractor oversight.

About Rune:

Rune helps solar and wind power plants turn financial and operational losses into revenue. We deploy hardware, software, and financial solutions to monetize energy that would otherwise go to waste. Our flagship product, the RELIC, is a modular demand response system that uses interruptible compute to capture value from curtailments, inverter outages, inverter clipping, and other sources of lost generation.

Rune is backed by leading investors including Union Square Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Vestas Ventures, among others.

About your role:

As Fleet Operations Manager at Rune, you will lead the deployment, energization, and reliable operation of our modular data centers, RELICs, which are co-located with renewable energy assets.

This is a hands-on, high-responsibility role where you'll ensure RELICs are delivered, commissioned, and consistently available to consume power when and where they should be.

You will coordinate site delivery, oversee commissioning, manage contractors, and collaborate with the internal team to design and execute a scalable, cost-effective operations and maintenance (O&M) strategy aligned with Rune’s gross margin expansion goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Deployment & Commissioning

• Coordinate logistics and delivery of RELIC units to solar and wind sites

• Lead hands-on commissioning and energization of new deployments

• Develop checklists, processes, and SOPs to scale deployments rapidly and repeatably

• Interface with power partner staff
  

Site Reliability & Performance

• Own site uptime and reliability; ensure RELICs respond accurately to power availability signals and work with the software team to build internal tools needed to track site reliability and performance

• Monitor operational performance and proactively resolve downtime issues

• Drive continuous improvement to increase availability and reduce operational overhead

Contractor Oversight & Vendor Management

• Identify, vet, and manage contractors for site prep, interconnection, and maintenance, including inventory tracking of spare parts and vendor RMAs

• Maintain a reliable bench of third-party service partners across multiple regions

• Hold vendors accountable to performance, safety, and budget targets

O&M System Development

• Collaborate with Rune’s internal team to build a scalable O&M strategy

• Define spare parts inventory, preventive maintenance routines, and response protocols

• Design and develop tools to track O&M performances.

• Balance reliability with cost to support margin targets across a growing fleet

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain deployment logs, incident reports, and reliability metrics

• Report regularly on fleet performance, downtime causes, and cost drivers

• Provide field insights to engineering and product teams for continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Required: 3+ years experience in bitcoin mining operations and 5+ years of field deployment experience for infrastructure projects

• Strong familiarity with ASIC miners, immersion or air-cooled systems, and miner management software (e.g., BraiinsOS+, LuxOS, Vnish, HiveOS)

• Proven experience coordinating field deployments and managing contractors

• Hands-on experience with power distribution, HVAC, or industrial controls preferred

• Excellent organizational and communication skills

• Must be comfortable in field environments, including physical work, travel, and irregular hours during commissioning windows

• Bonus: Experience working with modular or containerized infrastructure
  
  

What we offer:

• Competitive salary

• Option grants in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company.

• Comprehensive, premium healthcare packages for employees and their dependents.