Network Platform Engineering Lead (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States; hybrid work with on-site presence required during cluster bring-up when needed

Salary: $260,000–$330,000 per year in California, plus equity and bonus

Company

hirify.global is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform building and operating large-scale GPU compute infrastructure, including capital, clusters, networking, and software.

What you will do

• Lead a network platform engineering team through technical direction, design reviews, code reviews, delivery management, hiring, onboarding, and performance conversations.
• Define the architecture for compute and storage fabrics, overlays, multi-tenant isolation, edge connectivity, telemetry, and automation across sites.
• Own fabric standards and reference architecture for Ethernet, RoCE v2, and InfiniBand deployments.
• Expose network capabilities through APIs, abstractions, and IaaS control-plane integrations.
• Work with cluster bring-up teams, OEMs, partners, customers, security engineering, and other platform leads to improve designs and operational outcomes.
• Stay hands-on with complex engineering work, reliability, observability, incident response, post-mortems, and structural remediation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of large-scale data center or cloud network engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading an engineering team.
• Production software development experience in Python or Go, with familiarity with Rust and standard review and CI practices.
• Deep production experience with Ethernet fabrics, leaf-spine architectures, BGP, unnumbered BGP, ECMP, and low-latency operations.
• Production experience with RoCE v2, PFC, ECN, DCQCN, InfiniBand, fat-tree topologies, UFM, fabric partitioning, adaptive routing, and congestion control.
• Experience with EVPN, VXLAN, multi-tenant overlays, network automation, configuration as code, source-of-truth systems, CI validation, Kubernetes networking, and GPU infrastructure.
• Proven people management, multi-vendor network design evaluation, security awareness, stakeholder communication, and willingness to work on site during cluster bring-up.

Nice to have

• AI-assisted development and agent-assisted engineering workflows.
• ASN operations, IPv6, NVIDIA Spectrum-X, NetQ, Cumulus, SONiC, whitebox platforms, gNMI, OpenConfig, or NETCONF/YANG.
• OVN/OVS, SR-IOV, DPDK, BlueField DPU, NVLink, NVSwitch, or NCCL experience.
• Distributed work across time zones, open-source networking contributions, or related infrastructure projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, trusted environment focused on growth, impact, and work-life balance.
• Equity participation in hirify.global.
• Retirement or pension contributions.
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance.