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The Principal AI Network Architect joins the Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team to define long-term architecture and technology roadmaps for AI scale-up networking systems. This role involves architecting next-generation scale-up switches, including switch topology, ASIC selection, radix planning, and electrical and optical interconnect strategies. The architect will design network architectures for AI clusters, racks, pods, and multi-rack domains while performing tradeoff analyses regarding performance, scalability, reliability, power, cost, and serviceability. Key technical areas include Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, SONiC, switch ASICs, SerDes technologies, and optical networking technologies like OCI, XPO, CPO, and OBO. The role addresses the challenge of building high-performance infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads by providing technical direction to development teams and partners while evaluating emerging networking technologies across the broader ecosystem.
RDMA
RoCE
TCP/IP
UDP
SONiC
Linux Networking
Ethernet
SmartNICs
DPUs
High-Speed SerDes
Packet Analysis
Telemetry
Azure
Distributed Training
Collective Communication
Congestion Control
QoS