Staff Network Engineer

Role description

Role Overview

The Network Engineering Team is responsible for the design, validation, and ongoing operation of all networking services that underpin both the internal management platform and the customer-facing cloud infrastructure. As a Staff Network Engineer, you will be a technical authority for Nscale’s AI-optimized network fabrics.

What You Will Do

Define, design, validate, and evolve large-scale InfiniBand/RoCE and Ethernet fabric architectures at rack, row, and data center scale, with tight integration to bare-metal provisioning and cluster management systems.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will combine deep hands-on engineering with broad architectural influence, leading complex technical decisions and escalations, and mentoring engineers while partnering closely with deployment, data center operations, platform engineering, and vendors.

Requirements

• 10+ years of network engineering experience
• significant depth in HPC, AI, hyperscale, or large-scale data center environments
• extensive hands-on experience with RDMA-aware networking for AI/HPC workloads
• expert-level knowledge of modern data center routing and control planes
• strong network automation expertise using Python and Ansible
• deep design and engineering experience with firewall platforms
• experience designing network telemetry and observability for high-throughput, performance-sensitive environments
• proven ability to lead complex technical decisions and incidents across networking, systems, storage, and HPC/AI workload teams
• demonstrated experience defining architecture, standards, and technical strategy beyond a single project or site
• strong communication and mentoring skills

Benefits

• Cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers
• Relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability
• Build trust through openness and transparency
• Opportunities for professional growth and development