Principal Data Center Network Engineer, GPU/AI Infra

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

Annual bonus eligibility

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Designworks Talent is seeking a Principal Data Center Network Engineer to architect and operate the networking foundation for a GPU/HPC AI platform in the Bellevue, WA area. This hybrid role offers hands-on engineering with architectural influence across a multi-vendor infrastructure.

As an early networking team member, you will own design, automation, and secure tenant isolation for high-performance AI workloads, collaborating with hardware, platform, and cloud engineers to deliver secure and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing large-scale data center networks in hyperscale/cloud/hpc environments.
• Proven ability to implement multi-tenant networking and security architectures.
• Experience automating network deployments and operations.
• Strong vendor exposure across Arista, Juniper, HPE, Cisco.
• Ability to operate independently in fast-paced, early-stage environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate data center networking for large GPU clusters and AI workloads.
• Develop secure tenant isolation architectures for performance and security.
• Design resilient, highly available network architectures across compute, storage, and infra services.
• Collaborate with multiple vendors and internal teams to optimize AI training/inference networking.
• Build infrastructure automation for deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operations.
• Define networking standards and engineering best practices as the org grows.
• Evaluate new networking technologies and help shape long-term AI networking platform.
• Drive adoption of observability and automation frameworks.

Skills

Data center networking

Multivendor experience

Tenant isolation

Network automation

IaC

Tools

Arista

Juniper

HPE

Cisco

Job description

Designworks Talent is seeking a Principal Data Center Network Engineer to architect and operate the networking foundation for a GPU/HPC AI platform in the Bellevue, WA area. This hybrid role offers hands-on engineering with architectural influence across a multi-vendor infrastructure.

As an early networking team member, you will own design, automation, and secure tenant isolation for high-performance AI workloads, collaborating with hardware, platform, and cloud engineers to deliver secure and