Network Engineer, Design & Engineering

Fluidstack

$110K — $130K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in designing data center network fabrics from requirements to deployment.
  • In-depth L1 to L3 network expertise, particularly with CLOS/fat-tree topologies and BGP.
  • Experience designing lossless RDMA fabrics and understanding congestion management at scale.
  • Proven ability to tackle novel design challenges through first principles reasoning.
  • Collaborative approach in partnering across various departments including Hardware and Software.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with multi-vendor GPU integration and large-cluster experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire network design lifecycle from customer requirements to deployable architectures.
  • Produce designs for topology, IP addressing, routing policy, and fabric configurations.
  • Adapt architectures for different GPU platforms and workload profiles, including racks and cabling.
  • Translate logical network designs into physical configurations considering power and airflow.
  • Design lossless Ethernet fabrics with a focus on RDMA capabilities and performance management.
  • Create high-level and low-level designs, as well as design documentation and specifications.
  • Lead design reviews and develop reusable reference architectures.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package including salary and equity.
  • Retirement or pension plan benefits aligned with local standards.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous paid time off policy consistent with local practices.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • Own the network design lifecycle from customer requirements (GPU shape, workload, scale, tenancy) through deployable, validated architectures for AI training and inference.
  • Produce topology designs, IP/addressing schemes, routing policy, and fabric configuration specs across front-end, back-end (GPU-to-GPU training fabric), and storage networks.
  • Adapt architectures to different GPU platforms (NVIDIA, AMD, custom accelerators), form factors, and workload profiles, each with its own rack layout, power envelope, and cabling approach.
  • Translate logical designs into physical reality: rack elevations, power constraints, structured cabling and fiber budgets, pathway routing, and airflow that affect equipment placement.
  • Design lossless Ethernet fabrics for RDMA (RoCEv2): PFC, ECN tuning, traffic classes, and congestion management, reasoning about ECMP and collective-communication patterns in distributed training.
  • Produce HLDs, LLDs, cutsheets, BOMs, cabling matrices, and design decision records, and lead design reviews and reusable reference architectures.
What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've designed data center network fabrics from requirements through deployment, not just configured them, and can explain the tradeoffs behind every decision.
  • You have deep L1 to L3 expertise: CLOS/fat-tree topologies, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, and the fundamentals underneath them.
  • You design lossless RDMA (RoCEv2) fabrics and understand congestion management at training scale.
  • You reason from first principles through novel design challenges rather than pattern-matching to one reference architecture.
  • You partner across Hardware, DC Operations, ICT, Software, and Validation so designs are buildable and operationally sound.
  • Bonus: Source-of-truth-driven design generation. Multi-vendor GPU platform integration. Large-cluster (100k+ accelerator) experience.
Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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