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Principal AI Network Architect

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define and evaluate AI accelerator platforms focusing on high bandwidth, low latency networks; co-design infrastructure with silicon and platform teams; prototype new network architectures.

Role type

Principal AI Network Architect

Builds

AI accelerator platforms, high-performance networking infrastructure for AI GPU clusters

Domain

AI infrastructure, high-performance computing networking

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Ethernet networking, RDMA (RoCE, Infiniband), congestion control, layer 2/3 switching, scale-out/backend network architecture for AI GPU clusters, high radix ethernet switches, AI model execution pipeline analysis

Preferred skills

Standards committee contributions, hyperscale network deployments

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, NVLinks, UALink

Responsibilities

Spearhead architecture definition and evaluation of AI accelerator platforms; partner with silicon and platform design teams to co-design infrastructure; prototype new network architectures in state-of-the-art networking labs; participate in industry consortiums to shape standards and influence vendor roadmaps

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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