Principal Data Center Network Engineer for AI Infra

Designworks Talent; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Designworks Talent is seeking a Principal Data Center Network Engineer in the Bellevue, WA area to architect and build the networking foundation for a next-generation AI cloud platform. This greenfield role offers significant technical ownership and cross‑functional collaboration with infra, hardware, platform and cloud engineering teams.

As an early networking engineer, you will design secure, high‑performance data center networks across multi‑vendor environments (Arista, Juniper, HPE, Cisco),

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and operating large-scale data center networks in hyperscale/AI infrastructure or enterprise environments.
• Deep multi-vendor networking expertise with Arista/Juniper/HPE/Cisco or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of multi-tenant networking, segmentation, tenant isolation, and security architecture.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, automated networking solutions for production environments.
• Strong automation mindset with IaC, network automation, or programmable networking.
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where standards are built from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate data center networking for large-scale GPU clusters, AI workloads, and multi-tenant cloud services.
• Develop secure tenant isolation architectures for performance, scalability, and security across customer environments.
• Design resilient, highly available network architectures across compute, storage, and infrastructure services.
• Work across multiple networking platforms and vendors including Arista, Juniper, HPE, and Cisco.
• Collaborate with hardware, infra, virtualization, and platform teams to optimize networking for AI tasks.
• Build infrastructure automation for deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operations excellence.
• Define networking standards, architecture documentation, and best practices as the org grows.
• Evaluate emerging networking technologies to shape the long-term AI networking platform.

Skills

Data center networking

Multi-vendor networking

Automation / IaC

AI infrastructure networking

Security architecture

Networking standards

Tools

Arista

Juniper

HPE

Cisco

Job description

Designworks Talent is seeking a Principal Data Center Network Engineer in the Bellevue, WA area to architect and build the networking foundation for a next-generation AI cloud platform. This greenfield role offers significant technical ownership and cross‑functional collaboration with infra, hardware, platform and cloud engineering teams.

As an early networking engineer, you will design secure, high‑performance data center networks across multi‑vendor environments (Arista, Juniper, HPE, Cisco),