MIAMI — Hut 8, the AI infrastructure company headquartered in Miami, is preparing to move into a new Brickell office roughly five times larger than its current space as it ramps up local hiring, Refresh Miami reported — a bet that the city can supply the talent behind the AI computing build-out.
Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Asher Genoot, Hut 8 builds and operates energy and computing infrastructure serving hyperscale AI customers. The company employs about 280 people globally and expects to pass 300 soon, with roughly 120 of those employees already based in Miami.
The company is recruiting across engineering, development, finance, operations, real estate and people functions, with multiple roles currently open.
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The hiring strategy is being driven by Chief People Officer Matthew Saxon, who previously served as chief people officer at Zoom and vice president of people operations at Meta.
“We are very much bullish on Miami,” Saxon told Refresh Miami, adding that “hiring is so centric to us” as the company scales alongside surging demand for AI computing capacity.
Saxon said the company looks for candidates who pair technical skill with what he calls first-principles thinking, and it actively recruits interns and recent graduates. Hut 8 has also committed to an in-person, co-located work culture — a contrarian stance in tech that the company argues suits Miami’s density of ambitious transplants.
Saxon described Miami as a maturing hub for both finance and technology talent, with a cultural pull that helps the company attract professionals from across the country.
The expansion adds to a run of AI-driven momentum in South Florida’s tech scene. Miami-based Hydra Host, which connects GPU owners with customers seeking computing power, raised $100 million this year at a valuation approaching $800 million with backing from Nvidia and ARK Invest, and startups across the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro attracted nearly $2 billion in venture capital in the first half of 2026, with fintech and AI gaining prominence in the second quarter.
For Miami’s tech boosters, Hut 8’s decision to concentrate headcount in Brickell rather than a legacy tech hub is the kind of proof point the ecosystem has courted since the pandemic-era migration wave: a growing infrastructure company choosing to build its bench — engineers, dealmakers and operators alike — in South Florida.
The company has not publicly detailed a move-in date for the new office, but the message to the local talent market is unambiguous: the AI build-out is hiring, and a meaningful share of it is happening in Miami.
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