Network Architect (GPU/AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; On-site

Salary: $175,000–$230,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops clean-energy solutions that enable electrified homes and vehicles, resilient backup power, and flexible distributed electrical grids.

What you will do

• Own network architecture for residential nodes and commercial GPU clusters, including routing, switching, security gateways, addressing, management access, and capacity planning.
• Design data center, WAN, north-south, and east-west connectivity using Ethernet, InfiniBand, and RoCE.
• Evaluate fiber, ISP, carrier, cloud connectivity, peering, transit, traffic engineering, and failover options.
• Work with ISPs, carriers, compute, orchestration, security, deployment, and commercial teams on provisioning, testing, incidents, and service requirements.
• Build secure and resilient deployments with tenant isolation, encrypted connectivity, DDoS mitigation, remote recovery, and out-of-band access.
• Automate provisioning and operations through configuration validation, staged changes, rollback, telemetry, alerting, runbooks, and acceptance testing.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant network engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Strong experience with data center networks and WAN or ISP connectivity across multiple sites.
• Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, IPv4/IPv6, routing, switching, segmentation, VPNs, firewalls, QoS, and high availability.
• Experience with fiber access, carrier service models, high-speed server networking, optics, cabling, MTU, congestion, and oversubscription.
• Hands-on Linux troubleshooting and network automation using Python, Ansible, or comparable tools.
• Ability to take ambiguous network problems from design through deployment and production support while explaining performance, resilience, and cost tradeoffs.

Nice to have

• Production experience with GPU clusters, AI inference, HPC, InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA, or NCCL performance analysis.
• Experience with EVPN/VXLAN, leaf-spine fabrics, cloud interconnects, internet peering, or autonomous systems.
• Experience operating unattended edge sites, zero-touch provisioning, carrier-grade NAT, and remote recovery.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, multi-tenant compute platforms, and network-aware workload scheduling.
• Experience qualifying carrier services and negotiating technical requirements across providers or regions.

Culture & Benefits

• Open communication, teamwork, and a practical approach to solving complex challenges.
• Competitive compensation with equity grants at a venture-backed company.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with base-plan premiums covered for employees, plus additional coverage options.
• Parental leave of up to 24 weeks, depending on eligibility.
• Flexible hours, one holiday per month, flexible time off, team-building activities, employee resource groups, and learning events.