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If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nAbout The Role\nThe Network Operations and Engineering teams at Nscale operate some of the most demanding networking environments in the industry, supporting large-scale AI GPU clusters where network performance directly impacts customer outcomes.\nWe’re looking for a Staff Front End Network Engineer - AI Infrastructure to provide deep technical leadership within Nscale’s front-end networking domain.\nThis role focuses on owning and evolving the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our high-performance Ethernet front-end networks. 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While not the ultimate technical authority, you will significantly influence design direction and cross-team outcomes.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nLeading technical direction and operational improvements for Nscale’s front-end AI infrastructure networks within your domain\n\nDesigning, reviewing, and evolving large-scale Ethernet leaf-spine / Clos fabric architectures (Arista and Nokia platforms) to support growth, inference workloads, and storage requirements\n\nServing as a senior escalation point for complex front-end network incidents and driving deep technical root cause analysis and remediation\n\nDriving cross-team initiatives to improve fabric reliability, performance consistency, observability, and operational maturity\n\nDefining and evolving engineering standards for hardware configuration, routing, congestion management, firmware lifecycle, automation, and change safety across Nvidia Cumulus, Arista EOS, and Nokia platforms\n\nPartnering with SRE, Compute Platform, Storage, and Network Architecture teams to influence end-to-end system design, including DCI and storage networking integration\n\nMentoring senior engineers and contributing to the growth of technical excellence across the organization\n\nDelivering measurable improvements in uptime, latency consistency, capacity efficiency, and incident reduction for front-end services\n\nAbout You (Skills / Qualifications)\n10-12+ years of experience in network engineering, with a strong focus on hyperscale data center, cloud, or AI infrastructure networking\n\nDeep hands-on experience with large-scale Ethernet data center fabrics (leaf-spine / Clos topologies)\n\nStrong production expertise with Nvidia (Cumulus), Arista EOS, and/or Nokia platforms at scale\n\nSolid understanding of data center routing and control planes (BGP, OSPF, ECMP, EVPN-VXLAN)\n\nExperience with long-haul circuits, DCI, and optical transport (dark fiber, carrier Ethernet, coherent optics, ZR/ZR+)\n\nStrong understanding of storage networking over Ethernet in large-scale environments\n\nAbility to debug and resolve complex cross-layer issues across hardware, optics, routing, and application layers\n\nProven ability to lead technical initiatives across teams and influence outcomes without formal authority\n\nStrong systems thinking, balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency\n\nNice to Have\nExperience operating Arista, Nokia, or Nvidia networking platforms at hyperscale\n\nFamiliarity with AI infrastructure network design patterns (inference, management, storage tiers)\n\nExposure to DCI / long-haul optical or carrier network design and operations\n\nStrong automation experience (Python, Ansible, telemetry pipelines, validation frameworks)\n\nExperience contributing to infrastructure strategy or large-scale platform improvements\n\nWhat We Can Offer You\nAt Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions create real impact. 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