Applied Researcher – Network Expert
Designworks Talent, Bellevue
About the job
Applied researcher – network expert
Location: Hybrid | Bellevue, WA (downtown)
About the opportunity
Our client is seeking a Network Expert to join an Applied Research organization focused on the future of large-scale AI infrastructure.
This role is designed for a networking expert with deep experience in GPU-based computing environments and high-performance inter-GPU networking. As AI workloads increasingly rely on thousands of GPUs operating as a single logical system, the network connecting those GPUs becomes a critical component of overall infrastructure performance and scalability.
You will serve as a horizontal subject-matter expert, partnering with engineering and infrastructure leaders to evaluate technologies, architectures, and industry developments. You will help the organization understand where GPU networking is headed and what those developments mean for infrastructure, architecture, and investment decisions.
What you'll do
- Hold the company's view of where AI networking is going.
- Track vendor and hyperscaler roadmaps, research, standards work, and the startup and venture landscape across scale-up, scale-out and scale-across fabrics, topology and optics, collectives and the software above the fabric, operations and telemetry, and tenant-facing capability. Right now that means questions like how fast Ultra Ethernet displaces the RoCEv2 fabrics most clusters actually run, where the scale-up domain should end now that NVLink has open challengers, what co-packaged optics does to power per port, and how to network a cluster that no longer fits in one building. Those specific questions will have changed within a year — holding the current version of them is the job.