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The Principal AI Network Hardware Systems Engineer joins the Platform Systems Engineering team to lead the architecture, bring-up, validation, and deployment of networking infrastructure for the MAIA AI platform. This role involves developing requirements for large-scale training and inference clusters while collaborating across silicon, firmware, and software teams to deliver scalable solutions. The engineer will manage the full networking stack, including high-speed SerDes, optics, NICs, switch silicon, and RDMA-based technologies like RoCE, ECN, PFC, and DCQCN. Key responsibilities include designing IP-based solutions involving TCP/IP, UDP, and congestion management, as well as performing packet-level analysis and automated performance characterization. The role addresses the technical challenge of optimizing high-performance AI fabrics and distributed training systems to ensure reliability across large-scale infrastructure. Required expertise includes GPU-based system development and high-speed interface architecture for 200G/400G/800G Ethernet environments.
System Architecture
AI Networking
Data Center Networking
ASIC
DPUs
Signal Integrity
Power Delivery
Board Design
Packaging
Firmware
bring‑up
Interconnect Topology