Graphcore
Principal Network Program Manager, AI Infrastructure
US - Milpitas · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago
ComplianceProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementSupply ChainHardware DesignTCP/IPResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- This role combines technical depth in networking and optical interconnect technologies with strong program leadership across engineering, operations, suppliers, manufacturing, and deployment organizations.
- The successful candidate will bring strong experience managing complex networking programs involving high-speed interconnects, optical transceivers, silicon photonics, and hyperscale datacenter ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional network infrastructure programs from concept through deployment and operational readiness
- Drive program schedules, technical milestones, dependency tracking, risk management, and executive reporting
- Partner with network architecture and hardware engineering teams on development and deployment of high-speed network solutions
- Manage supplier engagement and roadmap alignment for optical connectivity and networking infrastructure components
- Support deployment and scaling of AI datacenter networking infrastructure including high-bandwidth optical interconnect solutions
- Drive issue escalation and cross-functional resolution for complex technical and operational challenges
- Support continuous improvement initiatives for networking deployment processes and infrastructure program execution
- Proven ability to manage external supplier relationships and drive technical roadmap alignment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across executive, engineering, and external partner organizations
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
- 10+ years of experience in technical program management, product management, or engineering leadership within networking, optical connectivity, or datacenter infrastructure environments
- Interface with hyperscale datacenter customers, ecosystem partners, and industry standards organizations where required
- Strong understanding of AI and hyperscale datacenter networking technologies
- Experience with high-speed optical interconnect technologies
- Experience with silicon photonics, optical compute interconnects, or co-packaged optics technologies
Skills
- Graphcore is one of the world's leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.
Compensation
- In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing and financial future.
Company info
- The System Engineering Program Management team is responsible for driving cross-functional execution and delivery of next-generation AI compute and networking systems across the full product lifecycle.
- The team partners closely with architecture, hardware, networking, software, operations, and supply chain organizations to coordinate complex engineering programs, align technical and business priorities, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure scalable, high-quality system deployment for Graphcore's AI infrastructure platforms.
- and Duties
- Coordinate engineering execution across networking, optical connectivity, systems hardware, operations, manufacturing, and supplier teams
- Coordinate qualification, validation, and production readiness activities for networking and optical technologies
- Align networking technology roadmaps with operational scalability, supply chain resilience, quality, and cost objectives
- Facilitate collaboration across geographically distributed engineering and operations teams
- Candidate Profile
- Experience leading cross-functional programs involving hardware, software, networking, operations, and supplier organizations
- Experience coordinating product lifecycle activities from architecture and development through qualification and deployment
- Experience operating within fast-paced, highly technical infrastructure environments
- Knowledge of networking protocols and infrastructure technologies including Ethernet, PCIe, UCIe, RDMA, RoCEv2, or related high-performance interconnect technologies
- Familiarity with AI networking architectures and large-scale GPU/accelerator cluster infrastructure
- Knowledge of hyperscale datacenter operations and network fabric deployment
- Experience collaborating with industry standards organizations such as IEEE, OIF, PCI-SIG, or related consortiums
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