Staff Front-End Network Engineer – AI Infrastructure

Nscale; Houston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle (TX, NY, CA, WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Staff Front End Network Engineer – AI Infrastructure to provide technical leadership for our high-performance frontend networking domain. You will own reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across Ethernet leaf-spine fabrics supporting inference traffic, cluster management, and storage connectivity.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and influence design choices across Nvidia Cumulus, Arista EOS, and Nokia platforms while partnering

Qualifications

• 10–12+ years of experience in network engineering in hyperscale data center, cloud, or AI infra environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with large-scale Ethernet fabrics (leaf-spine/Clos).
• Production expertise with Nvidia Cumulus, Arista EOS and/or Nokia platforms at scale.
• Deep knowledge of data center routing/control planes (BGP, OSPF, ECMP, EVPN-VXLAN).
• Experience with long-haul circuits, DCI, and optical transport.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and initiatives across front-end AI infrastructructure networks.
• Design and evolve large-scale Ethernet leaf-spine/Clos architectures.
• Serve as escalation point for complex front-end network incidents.
• Drive cross-team efforts to improve fabric reliability and observability.
• Define engineering standards for hardware configuration, routing, and firmware lifecycle across multiple platforms.
• Partner with SRE, Compute Platform, Storage, and Network Architecture teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and promote technical excellence.
• Deliver measurable improvements in uptime, latency, and capacity.

Skills

Hyperscale networking

Enterprise networking

BGP/OSPF/EVPN-VXLAN

Ethernet fabrics

NVIDIA Cumulus

Arista EOS

Nokia platforms

Tools

Python

Ansible

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Staff Front End Network Engineer – AI Infrastructure to provide technical leadership for our high-performance frontend networking domain. You will own reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across Ethernet leaf-spine fabrics supporting inference traffic, cluster management, and storage connectivity.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and influence design choices across Nvidia Cumulus, Arista EOS, and Nokia platforms while partnering