Network Engineer, Team Lead

Fluidstack

$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience in leading network engineering organizations
  • Proven track record in hiring and developing high-performance engineering teams
  • Strong balance in managing both strategic roadmap and operational tasks
  • Ability to streamline team performance for faster project delivery
  • Experience with AI and HPC networking preferred
  • Familiarity with multi-site program management and vendor relationships beneficial

Responsibilities

  • Lead the network engineering team, focusing on hiring and development
  • Own the network roadmap to align with build plans
  • Facilitate collaboration between design, deployment, and production teams
  • Anticipate workforce needs and build teams ahead of demand
  • Drive projects to completion at a rapid pace, ensuring quality and reliability

Benefits

  • Autonomy in decision-making and project ownership
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI network solutions
  • Fast-paced, high-intensity work environment
  • Scope for innovative thinking and challenging the status quo
  • Focus on team growth and professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
How We Operate
  • Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
  • Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
The Network Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Build the networks the frontier of AI trains on. Fabrics for 100k+ accelerator clusters, backbones between gigawatt campuses, and every network in between.
  • Run 10s to 100s of GWs of networks as one machine. Training fabrics for 100k+ accelerators, backbone, corp, and BMS/EPMS, one architecture across gigawatt campuses.
  • Deliver a full site network in days, not quarters. Designs generated from source-of-truth models, devices turned up by ZTP, every link validated by machine. At this scale, manual is an outage.
Role Scope
  • Lead the network engineering team: hiring, growth, priorities, and delivery across design and operations.
  • Own the network roadmap from fabric generations to backbone expansion, sequenced to the build plan.
  • Run the operating rhythm between design, deployment, and production so the network org moves as one.
  • Build the team ahead of demand: networks at this scale need engineers the market barely produces.
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 led network engineering organizations through rapid scale.
  • You've hired network engineers in a market where everyone is hiring them.
  • You balance roadmap work and operations without letting either starve.
  • Engineers you've led ship faster because of how you run the team.
  • Bonus: AI and HPC networking. Multi-site programs. Vendor relationship ownership. Automation-first organizations.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Fluidstack

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Network Engineer, Team Lead jobs: