Network Systems Architect

You will define multi-generation network architecture and roadmaps. You will derive fabric requirements from workloads, define topology and protocols, evaluate standards-based and custom technologies, use models and prototypes to test designs, and lead specifications and design reviews through implementation and qualification.

Responsibilities

• Set the architecture and roadmap for scale-up networks and their interfaces
• Derive bandwidth, latency, ordering, availability, and serviceability requirements from workload and communication choices
• Define fabric topology, protocols, switch behavior, routing, buffering, flow control, reliability, and fault containment
• Decide between standards-based technology and custom network designs
• Use performance models, traffic simulation, prototypes, and lab data to test architecture choices
• Write architecture and interface specifications
• Lead design reviews and drive decisions through implementation, bring-up, and qualification

Requirements

• 12 or more years of relevant industry experience
• Principal-level technical ownership of a networking, switching, accelerator, or HPC system
• Expertise in low-latency or proprietary interconnects, fabric protocols, or switch architecture
• Knowledge of switch pipelines, buffering, routing, flow or congestion control, and reliability
• Experience deriving network requirements from incomplete workload and system information
• Knowledge of Ethernet, IP, RDMA, BGP, and EVPN
• Experience with implementation, modeling, silicon, lab, bring-up, or debugging work
• Technical decision-making and stakeholder influence
• Knowledge of accelerator interconnects, switch ASICs, NICs, DPUs, transport offload, collective acceleration, coherent memory, or custom fabrics
• Knowledge of NCCL, RCCL, MPI, SHMEM, RoCE, InfiniBand, PCIe, or CXL
• Workload-driven modeling, traffic simulation, emulation, and silicon correlation
• Knowledge of SerDes, packaging, retimers, cabling, optics, and reach constraints