Network Engineer
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Network Engineer at Material: Remote, United States; Senior; IT; Other IT. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Remote, United States
- Role classification: IT, Other IT, Senior
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-10.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
About the role
Own the network powering large-scale AI training and inference. Your expertise spans hardware and software including rack design, fabric topology, thermal management, collective communications, telemetry, and performance across thousands of compute nodes.
What you'll do
Design rack layouts and cluster topologies
Inform thermal and power planning with facilities teams
Architect the network fabric
Tune collective communications for training and inference workloads
Build telemetry and observability
Drive performance, benchmarking, and incident response
What you'll need
BS in CS, EE, or related field, or equivalent production experience
Rack-to-cluster deployment experience: cabling, power, and thermal management
Expertise in network fabric architecture across RoCEv2 and InfiniBand: routing, load balancing, topology, queueing, congestion control, and QoS
Experience tuning collective communications: NCCL, RCCL, or vendor-specific libraries
Experience with network telemetry: NIC counters, switch streaming (gNMI, sFlow, INT), and collective-level metrics
Experience operating large-scale GPU or ASIC clusters in production
What we offer
Top-tier compensation structured to recognize and retain the best talent
Meaningful equity
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys
Flexible PTO
Paid Holidays
Relocation support
Equal Employment Opportunity
We're an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.