Staff Network Engineer – AI HPC Infra & Automation

Hamilton Barnes; Texas; On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development support

Team events

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes seeks a Staff Network Infrastructure Engineer to steer the global high-performance network for AI HPC workloads. You will architect, scale, and automate spine-leaf Clos fabrics, WAN backbones, and peering edges across large GPU clusters.

You will deploy streaming telemetry, observability, and AI/ML tools to streamline operations, drive reliability, and define automation roadmaps. Excellence in collaboration and coding is essential for this strategic role.

Qualifications

• Senior or staff network engineer with data center or hyperscale networks.
• Expert in BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS TE; VXLAN EVPN and Clos fabrics.
• Experience with programmable interfaces and automation (gNMI, NETCONF, REST).
• Strong network automation coding in Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for IREN’s global networks including data centers, WAN, backbone and facilities.
• Design and validate BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS TE, VXLAN, EVPN across multi-site campuses.
• Define roadmap for network automation from models to deployment and remediation.
• Write production code to automate provisioning, change management and workflows.
• Lead deployment of telemetry, observability and AI/ML tools for operations.
• Champion reliability and lead incident reviews for network infra and systems integration.
• Mentor senior engineers to elevate automation capabilities.

Skills

BGP

OSPF/IS-IS

MPLS with TE

VXLAN

EVPN

Clos fabric

Automation with Python/Go

gNMI/NETCONF/REST

NVIDIA Spectrum networking

GPU interconnects

AI/ML intuition for triage

Cross-functional influence

Tools

Cisco devices

Juniper devices

Arista devices

Job description

Hamilton Barnes seeks a Staff Network Infrastructure Engineer to steer the global high-performance network for AI HPC workloads. You will architect, scale, and automate spine-leaf Clos fabrics, WAN backbones, and peering edges across large GPU clusters.

You will deploy streaming telemetry, observability, and AI/ML tools to streamline operations, drive reliability, and define automation roadmaps. Excellence in collaboration and coding is essential for this strategic role.