Senior Datacenter Networking Engineer (GPU Infra)

Primeintellect; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack and is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design and operate the networks connecting large GPU clusters. You will own the reliability and performance of training fabrics, storage networks, and management connectivity so distributed workloads scale without bottlenecks.

Core responsibilities include deploying datacenter topologies for GPU training/inference, configuring Ethernet/RoCE/InfiniBand fabrics, automating provisioning with

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production datacenter networking experience.
• Strong understanding of Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing, switching, and redundant network design.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance GPU networking using InfiniBand or RoCE.
• Experience troubleshooting network problems across Linux hosts, NICs, switches, and physical links.
• Ability to automate network operations with Python, Ansible, or comparable tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable datacenter network topologies for GPU training, inference, storage, and management traffic.
• Configure and operate high-performance Ethernet/RoCE and InfiniBand fabrics with clear standards for routing, redundancy, and capacity.
• Automate network provisioning, configuration validation, upgrades, and rollback procedures.
• Diagnose packet loss, congestion, link failures, and collective communication performance across hosts and switches.
• Benchmark end-to-end network performance with infrastructure and ML teams, translating workload needs into measurable acceptance criteria.
• Build monitoring for port health, errors, utilization, congestion, and fabric topology; improve incident response and runbooks.
• Partner with datacenter operators and hardware vendors on cabling, optics, deployment readiness, and failure resolution.

Skills

Datacenter networking

TCP/IP & routing

GPU networking (InfiniBand/RoCE)

Linux networking

Automation with Python/Ansible

Tools

Python

Ansible

Job description

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack and is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design and operate the networks connecting large GPU clusters. You will own the reliability and performance of training fabrics, storage networks, and management connectivity so distributed workloads scale without bottlenecks.

Core responsibilities include deploying datacenter topologies for GPU training/inference, configuring Ethernet/RoCE/InfiniBand fabrics, automating provisioning with