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You will drive architecture of RDMA transports, congestion management frameworks, reliability mechanisms, and collective communication optimizations that directly influence cluster performance and application efficiency.\nSuccess requires understanding of networking, distributed systems, transport protocol design, and workload behavior. You will work across silicon, firmware, software, system architecture, and industry ecosystems to shape technologies that enable scalable AI infrastructure and next-generation datacenter fabrics.\nKey Responsibilities\nTransport Architecture Definition\nRDMA and Fabric Architecture\nCongestion Management and Network Efficiency\nAI and Collective Communication Optimization\nIndustry and Technical Leadership\nDesired Technical Expertise\nDeep expertise in silicon design and silicon architecture. protocol architecture.\nStrong understanding of networking technologies, including ethernet, IP and transport protocols.\nExperience with congestion control, flow control, traffic engineering, and large-scale fabric behavior.\nUnderstanding of AI communication patterns and collective operations.\nKnowledge of NIC, switch, and host software interactions across the networking stack.\nExperience analyzing performance and scalability limitations in distributed systems.\nAbility to translate workload requirements into deployable transport and network architectures.\nQualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n12+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree, 8+ years with a master's degree, or 6+ years with a PhD in networking, distributed systems, datacenter infrastructure, silicon development or related domains.\nDeep expertise in silicon development process, silicon architecture and micro-architecture. \nKnowledge of networking and transport protocol architecture or RDMA extremely beneficial.\nExperience architecting high-performance communication systems spanning hardware, firmware, software, and system-level components.\nDemonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex networking challenges involving latency, throughput, tail performance, congestion, packet loss, and workload efficiency.\nExperience translating application and workload requirements into transport, networking, and communication architecture specifications.\nStrong understanding of distributed computing and communication patterns used in AI, HPC, cloud, or large-scale datacenter environments.\nJob Type:\nExperienced HireShift:\nShift 1 (Ireland)Primary Location:\nIreland, LeixlipAdditional Locations:\nPosting Statement:\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.Position of Trust\nN/AEU Salary\nWe offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry.\nAnnual Salary Range for this job which could be performed in Ireland is: 89,400.00 € - 139,700.00 €\n\nThe compensation range displayed in this posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for this position. 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