Senior Solutions Engineer, AI/HPC Networking

Drivenets; Middletown (NJ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DriveNets is hiring for a senior network/solution architect to build and support AI/HPC infrastructure for global customers. You will work hands-on with NVIDIA/AMD platforms, design scalable data-center networking, and lead deployments from design to operation.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and collaboration across geographically distributed teams, with travel up to 20%. A strong background in data-center networking and cloud-aware architectures is required.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, CS, Physics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of network engineering (system/solution) experience.
• 7+ years of solution architecture/sales engineering experience, or equivalent, working for a vendor, VAR, or SI.
• Technical expertise in Data Center or high-end enterprise network design (BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS, Multicast).
• Expertise with datacenter design, including networking, compute, and storage.
• Ability to write extensive technical content (white papers, briefs, etc.) for external audiences with technical accuracy and clarity.
• Ability to multitask and collaborate with teams across locations.
• Ability to travel domestic and international up to 20%.
• Be Kind!

Responsibilities

• Build robust AI/HPC infrastructure for customers.
• Hands-on role building and supporting NVIDIA/AMD based platforms.
• Support large-scale AI clusters: performance, stability, monitoring.
• Administer Linux systems from GPU servers to compute nodes.
• Design rack layouts and network topologies for customer needs.
• Create automation scripts for network ops and config.
• Perform data center upgrades and deployments of DriveNets solutions.
• Install DriveNets products and ensure optimal performance.
• Monitor service health, latency, and availability.
• Engage across service lifecycle from design to deployment.
• Offer feedback by opening bugs and documenting workarounds.
• Collaborate with sales/customers on major deployments.
• Introduce new products to sales/support teams and customers.
• Deliver technical trainings and TOIs for teams and partners.
• Gather customer requirements for roadmap planning.

Skills

Network engineering

Solution architecture

BGP EVPN VXLAN

Data Center networking

Cloud experience

Technical writing

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Location: US
WFH-Remote role with travel to customers

DriveNets is a leader in high-scale networking software for AI infrastructure and service providers. The company pioneered a disaggregated networking architecture that transforms the economics of large-scale networks while maximizing performance, utilization, and operational efficiency. DriveNets-powered networks are deployed by global leaders, including AT&T and Comcast, supporting more than 30% of total U.S. internet traffic. DriveNets AI Fabric delivers full-stack networking for AI infrastructures, providing the highest-performance, Ethernet-based alternative to InfiniBand. The solution is deployed by hyperscalers, NeoClouds, and enterprises worldwide. With over $1B raised, DriveNets continues to push the boundaries of modern networking infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building robust AI/HPC infrastructure for new and existing customers.
• Technical hands-on role in building and supporting NVIDIA/AMD based platforms.
• Support operational and reliability aspects of large-scale AI clusters, focusing on performance at scale, training stability, real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Administer Linux systems, ranging from powerful GPU enabled servers to general-purpose compute systems.
• Design and plan rack layouts and network topologies to support customer requirements.
• Design and evaluate automation scripts for network operations, configuring server and switch fabrics.
• Perform Data Center upgrades and ensure smooth deployment of DriveNets solutions.
• Install and configure DriveNets products, ensuring optimal performance and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Provide feedback to internal teams such as opening bugs, documenting workarounds, and suggesting improvements.
• Engage with sales teams and customers to ensure success with major opportunities and deployments
• Introduce new products to the DriveNets’ sales and support teams and to DriveNets’ customers
• Deliver technical trainings and TOIs for support/sales engineers, partners, and customers
• Collaborate on product definition through customer requirement gathering and roadmap planning

Requirements:

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or other Engineering fields, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of network engineering (system/solution) experience.
• 7+ years of solution architecture/sales engineering experience, or equivalent, working for a vendor, value-added reseller, or system integrator.
• Technical expertise in Data Center or high-end enterprise network design (e.g. BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS, Multicast)
• Expertise with datacenter design, including networking, compute, and storage.
• Ability to write extensive technical content (white papers, technical briefs, etc.) for external audiences with a balance of technical accuracy, strategy, and clear messaging
• Ability to multitask efficiently in a multifaceted environment, ability to work with teams across geographical locations.
• Clear written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with executives and engineering teams.
• Ability to travel domestic and international up to 20% of the time.
• Be Kind!

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Familiarity with AI-relevant data center infrastructure and networking technologies such as: Infiniband, RoCEv2, lossless Ethernet technologies (PFC, ECN, etc), accelerated computing, GPU, NIC, DPU, etc.
• Understanding of AI/HPC networking infrastructure solutions, their advantages and disadvantages (AI/HPC networking design, high-speed interconnect technologies)
• Scale-up – NVLink, UALink, etc
• Scale-out – Ethernet and Enhanced Ethernet (Scheduled Ethernet, dynamic load balancing and adaptive routing, Spectrum-X, UEC, etc), InfiniBand
• Backend storage connectivity
• Understanding of data center operations fundamentals in networking, cooling, and power
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) and Telemetry (gRPC, gNMI, OTLP, etc).
• Proven experience with one or more Tier-1 Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI) or emerging Neoclouds, as well as cloud-native architectures and software.

More About DriveNets

Based in Israel with locations in Romania, US, India and Japan as well as extended teams, DriveNets operations cover more than twelve countries. With recognition by industry analysts and through partnerships with market leaders such as AMD, Broadcom, Dell and others, DriveNets is pushing market momentum, delivering the scale and efficiency that modern AI workloads demand. Visit our website:
https://drivenets.com/company/