Technical Support Senior Staff Engineer (AI Networking)

Location: US - Headquarters; on-site

Company

hirify.global builds high-performance infrastructure for demanding artificial intelligence workloads across silicon, systems, and networking.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end network bring-up and performance for GPU AI clusters during customer proof-of-concepts.
• Design, develop, and maintain features and enhancements for the SONiC network operating system.
• Debug software, Linux systems, networking stacks, distributed infrastructure, and complex system issues.
• Develop tools for traffic monitoring, performance measurement, deployment efficiency, observability, telemetry, and automated testing.
• Support customer deployments, integration testing, proof-of-concepts, and field issue resolution.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, infrastructure, QA, test, product, and customer teams on root-cause analysis and robust solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of work experience, including hands-on SONiC or equivalent network operating system development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Solid knowledge of Linux, TCP/IP networking, routing, switching, VLANs, network troubleshooting, and Docker containers.
• Experience with PTF and SPyTest for network validation; knowledge of network ASICs and switch hardware architecture is mandatory.
• Strong problem-solving, written communication, verbal communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Data-center networking with switch ASIC tuning and platform bring-up.
• Deep knowledge of buffers, queueing, QoS, ECN, PFC, VOQ, and shared pools.
• Experience with optics and PHY technologies, EVPN/VXLAN, BlueField DPU offloads, GPUDirect RDMA, storage fabrics, and AI networking benchmarks.
• Experience with tools such as ethtool, devlink, mlnx_qos, perfquery, Prometheus, gNMI, REST, perftest, nccl-tests, and iPerf3.
• Python or Ansible automation and Git-based configuration workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced startup environment focused on foundational AI infrastructure.
• Operate with strong ownership, technical rigor, and speed.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers across hardware, software, infrastructure, QA, test, and product teams.
• Work on technologies powering next-generation GPU clusters and AI data centers.
• Accessibility accommodations are available throughout the hiring process.