Space Datacenter Networking Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in San Carlos, California, United States. Applicants must meet U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements.

Salary: $196,720–$236,484 annually.

Company

Building space infrastructure that connects orbital computing, energy transmission, satellite communications, and high-bandwidth optical data systems.

What you will do

• Design the topology, protocols, addressing, routing, performance targets, and failure domains for space data-center networks.
• Select and integrate switches, adapters, interconnects, cabling, and management components.
• Model and measure collective performance, congestion, latency, availability, and workload sensitivity.
• Build telemetry, diagnostic paths, failure isolation, rerouting, and graceful-degradation behavior.
• Build representative test fabrics, automate validation, inject faults, and lead root-cause analysis.
• Define spacecraft and ground interfaces and qualify critical components for the mission environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years designing or operating high-performance AI, HPC, storage, or low-latency networks.
• Deep experience with InfiniBand, RoCE, high-performance Ethernet, or a comparable compute fabric.
• Strong understanding of topology, congestion control, collective communication, failure domains, and telemetry.
• Hands-on experience configuring, benchmarking, and debugging network hardware.
• Proficiency in Python or another language used for test automation and telemetry analysis.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain the authorizations required under ITAR.

Nice to have

• Rail-optimized network design for distributed training or inference.
• Embedded, remote, power-constrained, or radiation-exposed networking experience.
• Switch or adapter firmware, FPGA, kernel-driver, or low-level network-software experience.
• Automated fault injection, health scoring, adaptive routing, or link-isolation experience.
• Spacecraft communications, optical inter-satellite links, or ground-link interface experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity in hirify.global Corp.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, 10 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Daily lunch in the office and a stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks.