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Network Engineer, Supercomputing

350k – 475kSan Francisco, CADevOps / SREOnsite
Summary

Own and debug multi-thousand-GPU network fabric (RDMA/RoCE, NVLink/NVSwitch) for large-scale AI training and inference. Requires backend language proficiency, large-scale cluster experience, and cross-stack ownership.

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Reason about and validate GPU network fabric design across our deployments.
  • Debug RDMA / RoCEv2 across different NIC vendors. Diagnose collective failures of production NCCL, PFC/ECN tuning, and congestion control behavior.
  • Own NVLink / NVSwitch interconnect — including fabric manager and IMEX health, link and lane errors, and how the GPU fabric interacts with collectives.
  • Build host-level network instrumentation and use Linux tooling to build dashboards and alerts, not just the bug report.
  • Navigate cross-cloud fabric quirks across providers and triage across the NIC, driver, kernel, switch, and workload boundaries.
  • Drive escalations with cloud-provider networking teams, owning issues end-to-end until they're resolved.

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language (we use Python or Rust).
  • Experience operating large‑scale clusters and container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes or Slurm).
  • Comfort operating across the stack and owning projects end-to-end.
  • Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving many, different cross-functional partners and subject matter experts.
  • A bias for action with a mindset to take initiative to work across different stacks and different teams where you spot the opportunity to make sure something ships.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Fluency with host-level debugging tools on Linux.
  • Strong communication skills, internally and with cloud providers.
  • Extensive experience with at least one of the following:
    • Familiarity with cloud network primitives across at least two cloud providers.
    • Hands-on experience with NVLink / NVSwitch, fabric manager, and IMEX.
    • Statistical rigor in reliability reasoning — comfort reasoning about failure and error rates, distributions, and base rates, and the judgment to separate signal from noise when characterizing a large fabric.
    • A track record of writing tooling that made the next debugging session meaningfully faster.
    • Familiarity with CUDA/NCCL and performance profiling for distributed training and inference.
    • Understanding of deep learning frameworks and their underlying system architectures.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Compensation: $350,000 - $475,000 USD annual salary range.
  • Benefits: Generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.
  • Visa sponsorship available.
Skills
PythonRustKubernetesSlurmRDMARoCEv2NCCLNVLinkNVSwitchCUDALinux
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