Lead, Network Connectivity & Strategy
Own external connectivity, backbone capacity planning, and carrier negotiations for multi-GW AI training networks across data center campuses. Requires scaled carrier/long-haul experience, dark fiber procurement, and capacity planning.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own external connectivity: carriers, dark fiber, internet exchanges, and cloud interconnects across the fleet.
- Plan backbone capacity between sites years ahead of the traffic that will fill it.
- Negotiate technical terms with carriers and fiber providers alongside sourcing.
- Own the connectivity roadmap: diversity, latency, and cost engineered deliberately.
- Build the networks the frontier of AI trains on. Fabrics for 100k+ accelerator clusters, backbones between gigawatt campuses, and every network in between.
- Run 10GW of networks as one machine. Training fabrics for 100k+ accelerators, backbone, corp, and BMS/EPMS, one architecture across gigawatt campuses.
- Deliver a full site network in days, not quarters. Designs generated from source-of-truth models, devices turned up by ZTP, every link validated by machine.
Requirements
- Engineered carrier and long-haul connectivity at scale.
- Procured dark fiber and lit services and know where the contracts hide risk.
- Plan capacity with data and buy ahead of need.
- Hold carriers to SLAs with escalation paths you built yourself.
Nice-to-Haves
- Long-haul and subsea systems.
- DWDM.
- Peering strategy.
- Fiber route analysis.
Skills
Dwdm, Dark Fiber, Long-Haul Connectivity, Peering, Carrier Negotiation, Fiber Route Analysis, Subsea Systems, Ztp, Bms, Epms
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