Groq
Sr./Staff Network Design Engineer, AI/HPC
San Francisco, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- You'll combine deep networking expertise with a systems engineering mindset-considering not only whether a network works, but how it behaves at scale, how it fails, how it is validated, and how efficiently it can be operated.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end network design process, translating customer compute, workload, scale, and tenancy requirements into production-ready" architectures for AI training and inference.
- Work closely with software teams building inference and training stacks to align network topology with stack architecture.
- Develop network architectures, high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs), review bill of materials (BOMs), and implementation standards leveraging industry and vendor reference architectures.
- Design spine-leaf/Clos fabrics across front-end, back-end, and storage networks, with a focus on performance, resiliency, scalability, and operational simplicity.
- Evaluate and implement technologies such as BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, ECMP, IPv4/IPv6, QoS.
- Develop strategies for data center interconnect, WAN connectivity, internet edge, cloud connectivity, and external peering.
- Perform network capacity planning and traffic engineering for high-bandwidth AI and distributed compute workloads.
- Partner with compute and infrastructure engineering teams to understand workload communication patterns and translate them into network requirements.
- Build lab environments, proofs of concept, and design-validation frameworks before introducing new architectures into production.
- Define failure scenarios and validate network behavior during link, device, control-plane, and site failures.
Requirements
- This role requires deep expertise in data center networking, routing protocols, network architecture, automation, and large-scale infrastructure.
- The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas.
- 8+ years of experience in network engineering, architecture, or infrastructure engineering, with significant experience designing large-scale data center networks.
- Experience with EVPN/VXLAN and modern network virtualization architectures.
- Strong understanding of ECMP, routing convergence, failure domains, traffic engineering, and network resiliency.
- Experience with network platforms and operating systems from vendors such as Arista, Cisco, Juniper, NVIDIA, or equivalent.
- Experience with network automation and software development using Python and APIs.
Compensation
- $270k-$402k
Benefits
- Compensation Groq is committed to providing competitive compensation through our Total Cash philosophy, which incorporates potential bonus value directly into base pay.
- Beyond cash compensation, Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and a robust suite of employee benefits.
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