# Lead, Network Connectivity & Strategy

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Austin, TX
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Dwdm, Dark Fiber, Long-Haul Connectivity, Peering, Carrier Negotiation, Fiber Route Analysis, Subsea Systems, Ztp, Bms, Epms
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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