HPC & AI Networking Architect – Next-Gen Interconnects

GTN Technical Staffing; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking an experienced Emerging Network Architect to help evaluate, design, and integrate next-generation networking technologies for large-scale HPC, AI, and accelerated compute environments.

This highly technical role sits at the intersection of networking, compute, storage, and distributed systems, with hands-on work and influence over architecture decisions and vendor roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Deep expertise in network architectures, high-performance interconnects, and network topologies supporting HPC, AI, or large-scale compute environments.
• Hands-on experience with high-speed networking technologies such as InfiniBand, NVLink/NVSwitch, Ethernet/RoCE, Omni-Path or similar fabrics.
• Strong understanding of packet switching, routing algorithms, flow control, congestion management, and network optimization.
• Experience evaluating the relationship between networking performance and distributed compute workloads.
• Knowledge of performance benchmarking tools and methodologies such as OSU Micro-Benchmarks, MPI benchmarks, STREAM, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging network architectures and technologies that can improve HPC and AI infrastructure performance.
• Research and assess next-generation networking technologies, interconnects, fabrics, and system architectures.
• Develop strong technical partnerships with leading networking and infrastructure vendors and incorporate future technology roadmaps into platform strategy.
• Recommend and justify hardware and software solutions aligned with performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency objectives.
• Work with customers and technical stakeholders to understand current and future HPC, AI/ML, scientific computing, and simulation workloads.
• Translate workload requirements into network architecture, topology, bandwidth, latency, and performance requirements.
• Evaluate new networking hardware and software in lab and test environments before broader production deployment.
• Design and execute benchmarks, performance tests, and proof-of-concept environments for emerging technologies.
• Identify network bottlenecks and perform latency, bandwidth, congestion, and performance analysis.
• Partner with compute and storage architects to develop complete end-to-end HPC and accelerated computing architectures.
• Provide technical guidance to infrastructure and engineering teams responsible for deploying selected architectures at scale.
• Continuously evaluate the HPC, AI infrastructure, and networking ecosystem across established vendors, emerging companies, and new technologies.
• Influence vendor product roadmaps through technical feedback, joint evaluations, proof-of-concept testing, and strategic partnerships.

Skills

Network architectures

High-performance interconnects

Network topologies

Linux performance tuning

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

InfiniBand

NVLink/NVSwitch

Ethernet/RoCE

Omni-Path or similar fabrics

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking an experienced Emerging Network Architect to help evaluate, design, and integrate next-generation networking technologies for large-scale HPC, AI, and accelerated compute environments.

This highly technical role sits at the intersection of networking, compute, storage, and distributed systems, with hands-on work and influence over architecture decisions and vendor roadmaps.