NorthMark Strategies

Emerging Network Architect

Dallas, TX

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About the role

The Emerging Network Architect role focuses on evaluating, designing, and integrating next-generation networking technologies to support high-performance computing (HPC) platforms.
This position works at the intersection of compute, storage, and networking to assess new architectures, benchmark performance, and guide technology selection aligned with scalability, efficiency, and workload requirements.
Partnering closely with vendors, internal architects, and customers, the role helps translate evolving network capabilities into practical, production-ready HPC solutions that can be validated in lab environments and deployed at scale across advanced research and compute systems

Develop and maintain strong technical partnerships with leading vendors in networks to incorporate their future roadmaps in our HPC platform and architectures
Evaluate the incoming hardware and software sufficient to verify the systems in our own environment and lab setups
Collaborate with storage and compute architects to stitch together the individual vendor's pieces to achieve a complete HPC solution
Contribute technical guidance and support to other internal teams responsible for standing up the chosen architectures at scale

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Deep expertise in network architectures and interconnect topologies with demonstrable experience working on these products for HPC
Hands on experience with high-speed fabric solutions, particularly InfiniBand and NVLink, but also including Ethernet (RoCE) and Omni-Path, etc..
Expertise in various forms of packet switching, routing algorithms, flow control, and congestion management and can adapt the right solutions for the highest network performance
An understanding of how high-speed networking impacts compute and experience with performance modelling and industry standard benchmarks like OSU, MPI, STREAM, etc..
Proven experience designing HPC clusters and parallel computing environments, with strong proficiency in Linux kernel tuning, system-level optimisations and performance profiling
Any experience working with emerging Network trends like CXL, PCIe Gen 6, DPU are not required, but strongly valued
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more.
Company-Paid Lunch Stipend: Lunch is provided via GrubHub
Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays

Lunch is provided via GrubHub
Work with customers to understand their HPC current and future workloads and requirements and the impact on our models and performance benchmarks

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Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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