Engineering Manager, Networking (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Networking (AI): Building and leading the Infrastructure Expansion team to design and build network infrastructure for hirify.global’s Points of presence, Data Centers and Backbone with an accent on WAN buildout, data center networking, cloud connectivity, and host networking. Focus on enabling ML teams to seamlessly use compute capacity across multiple cloud providers and hirify.global's own data centers.

Location: Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY

Salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD

Company

hirify.global’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Build and lead the team: Recruit, develop, and retain a team of exceptional engineers; establish team charter, practices, and priorities as the team matures.
• Drive technical strategy: Partner with technical leads to prioritize work across WAN buildout, data center networking, cloud connectivity, and host networking ensuring we're solving the right problems at the right time.
• Ensure operational excellence: Mature the team's approach to reliability, observability, and incident response as the network becomes increasingly critical to research and production workloads.
• Enable ML teams to seamlessly use compute capacity across multiple cloud providers and our own data centers.
• Communicate and coordinate: Serve as the bridge between the networking team and the broader organization clearly articulating dependencies, risks, and progress to stakeholders.
• Stay technically grounded: Maintain enough technical depth to understand your team's work, provide meaningful guidance, and credibly represent networking concerns in cross-functional discussions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role.
• Experience building teams in environments with ambiguity and rapid change.
• Strong technical foundation in networking: you can credibly discuss TCP/IP, BGP, routing architectures, and network debugging at a level that earns respect from senior ICs.
• Experience across multiple networking domains (WAN, data center networking, host networking, cloud networking), with a strong emphasis on data center networking.
• Ability to balance technical depth with pragmatic decision-making; you know when to dive deep and when to trust your team.
• Strong communication skills you can translate complex technical challenges into business terms and vice versa.

Nice to have

• Experience at companies during periods of hypergrowth where you've scaled networking alongside the business.
• Background in environments where you've worn multiple hats and worked across organizational boundaries.
• Familiarity with both cloud provider networking (AWS, GCP) and on-premises/colo environments.
• Experience working directly with internal users, cloud providers, and vendors to solve end-to-end networking problems.
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure and the unique demands of large-scale distributed training.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Hiring process

• hirify.global recruiters only contact you from @hirify.global.com email addresses.
• Be cautious of emails from other domains.
• Legitimate hirify.global recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day.