Member of Technical Staff, AI Networking (AI)

TL;DR

Member of Technical Staff, AI Networking (AI): Designing and scaling the world's most advanced high-performance networks powering Copilot and next-generation AI systems with an accent on end-to-end networking architecture, link-layer to fabric-wide systems for hyperscale AI training clusters. Focus on engineering ultra-low-latency ROCE networks, designing congestion-free transport mechanisms, and optimizing lossless fabrics at 10k–100k+ GPU scale.

Location: Zürich, Switzerland (hybrid: employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if living within 25 miles of the location).

Company

hirify.global's Superintelligence Team is a startup-like team inside hirify.global, created to push the boundaries of AI towards Humanist Superintelligence—ultra-capable systems that remain controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values.

What you will do

• Design advanced ROCE transport, congestion control, ECN/WRED/DCTCP tuning.
• Develop fabric architecture, topology planning, network modeling, and scaling strategy.
• Implement telemetry, observability, reliability engineering, and automated troubleshooting.
• Develop and tune the deployment of novel routing techniques for large networks.
• Collaborate with network designers like NVIDIA, Broadcom, and in-house silicon/network co-design teams.
• Perform AI training and inference cluster bring-up, performance benchmarking, and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience in end-to-end networking architecture and fabric-wide systems for hyperscale AI training clusters.
• Proficiency in designing, bringing up, and scaling distributed Ethernet and InfiniBand fabrics.
• Ability to benchmark, profile, debug, and tune AI workloads in production clusters.
• Familiarity with ultra-low-latency ROCE networks and congestion-free transport mechanisms.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a startup-like team environment dedicated to pushing AI boundaries.
• Contribute to a mission focused on empowering every person and organization and creating Humanist Superintelligence.
• Foster a culture of respect, integrity, and accountability with a growth mindset.
• Opportunity to work on frontier AI models with significant positive impact.
• Collaborate across Azure, hirify.global, and datacenter teams.