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The Senior Software Engineer joins the HPC/AI team to build the networking and systems infrastructure powering large AI supercomputing clusters. You will design and develop next-generation networking solutions, including network transport protocols, RDMA-based communication libraries, and collective communication frameworks. Your daily work involves optimizing end-to-end communication performance for latency, throughput, and congestion management while ensuring scalability for distributed AI workloads. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to solve complex backend network architecture problems. The role requires deep technical expertise in high-performance networking technologies like Ethernet or InfiniBand fabrics, hardware-software co-design involving GPUs and NICs, and performance profiling of distributed systems to enable efficient training and deployment of large-scale AI models.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 365 postings across 49 companies.
Design and develop networking solutions for large-scale AI training and inference infrastructure.
Implement network transport protocols and RDMA-based communication libraries for AI supercomputing clusters.
Analyze and optimize end-to-end communication performance including latency, throughput, and congestion management.
Resolve complex networking and distributed systems challenges across production-scale AI infrastructure.
Author design specifications and drive technical architecture for networking and distributed systems technologies.
Develop observability systems and performance optimization technologies for large-scale distributed AI workloads.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
5+ years of experience in software design, development, and performance optimization of distributed systems, large-scale infrastructure, networking software, or communication libraries (preferred).
3+ years of experience with high-performance networking technologies and architectures, including RDMA, Ethernet or InfiniBand fabrics, transport protocols, or communication libraries (preferred).
1+ years of experience with hardware-software co-design involving networking, accelerators, GPUs, DPUs, NICs, or large-scale system architectures (preferred).
1+ years of experience with performance analysis, profiling, benchmarking, and optimization of distributed or HPC workloads (preferred).
RDMA
TCP/IP
Ethernet
DPDK
SR-IOV
SmartNICs
C++
C
Java
Python
Linux
Kernel Development
Drivers
Azure
Virtualization
Distributed Systems
Hardware-Software Integration
Firmware
High-Performance Computing