Staff Network Engineer for HPC/MPP & AI

Teradata Corporation (SE); Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 156,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of networking software for our massively parallel processing platform. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate innovation and execution at scale.

You will architect scalable networking software, drive tech adoption, and collaborate with product, hardware, and systems teams to deliver high-performance interconnects across Teradata's MPP ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong background in HPC or large-scale distributed systems development.
• Proven experience with Linux kernel and driver development in C, including production support.
• Deep familiarity with bare-metal and virtualized environments, including performance tradeoffs.
• Expertise in InfiniBand and Ethernet networking, leveraging RDMA and RoCE for low-latency, high-throughput communication.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and UDP networking, along with Linux networking, tuning, and diagnostic tools.
• Packet-level analysis and Linux kernel debugging using tools such as tcpdump, kgdb, and crash.
• Experience designing and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency data transport protocols.
• Strong knowledge of the Linux kernel, including DKMS, driver lifecycle management, and compatibility across kernel versions.
• Proficiency in C, Bash, and Python for systems programming, automation, and diagnostics.
• Experience with massively parallel processing (MPP) using message-passing interfaces.
• Effective use of modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, coding, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and evolve scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant networking software for high-speed interconnects.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies across OS, networking, adapters, DPUs, accelerators.
• Lead complex debugging and root-cause analysis of system-level customer issues across hardware, firmware, OS, networking.
• Define and execute targeted research initiatives to validate new technologies and guide platform decisions.
• Partner with product, hardware, and systems teams to prototype, benchmark, and productionize enhancements.
• Establish performance benchmarks and validation methodologies for networking innovations.
• Influence platform roadmaps through industry trends and partner technologies.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding, analysis, and testing tools to accelerate development cycles.

Skills

HPC experience

Linux kernel

C programming

RDMA RoCE

Networking

Python scripting

AI-assisted tooling

Mentoring

Kernel debugging

Massive parallel processing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

InfiniBand

Ethernet drivers

DKMS

DPDK

XDP

eBPF

Job description

Teradata seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of networking software for our massively parallel processing platform. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate innovation and execution at scale.

You will architect scalable networking software, drive tech adoption, and collaborate with product, hardware, and systems teams to deliver high-performance interconnects across Teradata's MPP ecosystem.