System Architect – Networking Solution
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 15, 2026.
Description
Ra'anana, Israel | Hybrid
About DriveNets
DriveNets is a leader in large-scale networking solutions for AI infrastructure and service providers. Founded in 2016, the company created a radical new way to build networks that substantially improves the network’s economic model and optimizes its utilization and efficiency.
DriveNets Network Cloud powers production networks for global tier-1 operators such as AT&T, Comcast and KDDI, and carries the majority of AT&T’s core backbone traffic. DriveNets AI Fabric, introduced in 2023, provides the highest-performance Ethernet-based AI networking solutions and the best Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand. It is used by hyperscalers, NeoClouds, and foundation model labs, and is sold in collaboration with partners like AMD and Broadcom. In June 2026, DriveNets closed a $410 million Series D round, bringing its total capital raised to $1 billion. The company has more than $1 billion in secured business.
The Role
Networking solution track: You define the NOS networking behavior, specifically the routing protocols and the data path application. This requires understanding network processor (NP) capabilities and how the NOS data path software uses them.
Responsibilities
Architecture and specification
- Define system requirements and lead architectural design across the routing, data path and infrastructure domains.
- Define management interfaces (YANG, CLI config and show commands, SNMP, system events), operational behavior, and scale and HA expectations.
- Own each spec from requirement through implementation, and maintain the architecture docs for your areas.
AI SDLC
- Own the SysArch stage of Product → SysArch → Dev → QA.
- Write specs, harness context and acceptance criteria so epics can run through the AI pipeline.
Technical leadership
- Drive spec and design reviews, and guide engineers through design decisions.
- Establish design standards that improve resilience, security and efficiency at scale.
- Ensure cross-domain consistency: review interactions such as memory management and HA, upgrades, and data path/HAL, and keep CLI and YANG conventions uniform.
- Lead work groups, analyze and presents complex topics clearly to engineering, Product management and customers.
Customer and product
- Translate product strategy and requirements into engineering specs, and help prioritize them.
- Engage directly with customers to present the NOS architecture.
- Understand customer asks and translate them into architecture options, with effort and risk assessments for Product.
Requirements
Mandatory skills
- BSc in CS or EE.
- 4-5 years as a software technical leader, plus 2-3 years in system architecture.
- Proven record of leading technical efforts across teams in a matrix organization.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong presentation skills, both with customers and internally.
- Hands-on use of agentic AI flows for research, spec writing and review.
- Networking track: routing and data path
- Knowledge of L2/L3 routing and data path (for example QoS and ACL).
- Data modeling knowledge.
- Network processor (NP) experience (major advantage).
Advantages
- Experience at telco or networking companies (major advantage).
- Software development experience on highly complex systems.
- Familiarity with both AI data-center and service-provider network architectures, since the platform serves both.