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Senior Network HW System Engineer

United States, California, Mountain View💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop and integrate scale-up and scale-out networking solutions for MAIA AI training and inference systems, translating AI/ML workload requirements into system-level networking specs.

Role type

Senior IC network hardware system engineer (AI infrastructure)

Builds

Rack-scale and cluster-scale AI infrastructure for training and inference

Domain

AI/ML, High-Performance Computing, Data Center Networking

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

High-speed SerDes (112G/224G, PAM4), Optical interconnects (OSFP/QSFP-DD, AOCs, LPO, LRO, CPO), Silicon photonics, Ethernet switching, NICs, FPGA/GPU/TPU integration, Telemetry & diagnostics, Test automation, Linux scripting, Signal/link integrity analysis

Preferred skills

AI workload communication patterns, Network collectives, Traffic profiling, IEEE Ethernet/OIF/CMIS standards, Hyperscale datacenter deployment

Technologies

PAM4 SerDes, DAC/AEC, OSFP/QSFP-DD, LPO, LRO, CPO, Silicon photonics, DR4/DR8/FR4, Linux, FPGA, GPU, TPU

Responsibilities

Evaluate architecture tradeoffs across performance, reliability, power, and cost; Develop end-to-end validation strategies for functionality, performance, and stress; Collaborate across silicon, firmware, hardware, software, and OS teams; Develop telemetry, diagnostics, and network health monitoring solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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