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Principal Deep Learning Communication Architect

3 Locations💼 Full-time💰 $272,000–$272,000🗓 2026-04-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define long-term technical roadmaps and design next-generation communication primitives for scaling AI models across massive clusters.

Role type

Principal Deep Learning Communication Architect

Builds

Communication libraries (NCCL, NVSHMEM, UCC) and collective algorithms for trillion-parameter LLMs and Agentic AI.

Domain

High-performance computing (HPC) and distributed deep learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

3D parallelism (Data, Tensor, Pipeline, Context, Expert, ZeRO), RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand verbs, GPU memory hierarchy (HBM3e/HBM4), CUDA programming, high-throughput inference engines (TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang)

Preferred skills

Framework development (Megatron-Core, DeepSpeed, JAX/XLA), upstream open-source contributions, rack-scale system deployment, patents/papers in systems/architecture venues

Technologies

NVLink, Spectrum-X, Quantum-X, NCCL, UCX, UCC, NVSHMEM, MPI, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA

Responsibilities

Define technical roadmaps for communication libraries, optimize collective algorithms for heterogeneous interconnects, co-design communication primitives with application developers, collaborate with silicon architects on hardware specifications, develop analytical models to predict system behavior

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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