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You will work closely with senior technical leaders to design, implement, optimize, and operate critical networking infrastructure used by large-scale AI training and inference workloads.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep technical expertise, strong software development skills, and a passion for solving complex performance and scalability challenges.\nWhat You'll Bring\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and systems programming expertise.\nDeep interest in RDMA, high-performance networking, and distributed communication systems.\nAbility to diagnose and solve complex performance and scalability problems.\nStrong collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional engineering environments.\nOwnership mindset with the ability to independently drive technical initiatives from design through production deployment.\nPassion for building infrastructure that enables next-generation AI systems.\n Key Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, and optimize RDMA-based software components and services for large-scale AI infrastructure.\nBuild and enhance collective communication frameworks, transport layers, and communication libraries used by distributed AI workloads.\nDevelop congestion management, load balancing, resiliency, and failover capabilities for RDMA-based networks.\nAnalyze and improve communication performance across networking, GPU, and software stacks.\nDesign and implement scalable distributed systems supporting AI training and inference environments.\nCollaborate with networking, AI infrastructure, hardware, and cloud platform teams to deliver high-performance solutions.\nInvestigate and resolve complex networking, performance, and reliability issues in production environments.\nDevelop observability, telemetry, debugging, and performance analysis tools for distributed communication systems.\nContribute to architectural design discussions and technical direction for networking platforms.\nParticipate in code reviews and help maintain engineering excellence across the team.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.\n7+ years of software engineering experience in systems software, networking, distributed systems, or infrastructure platforms.\nStrong hands-on expertise with RDMA technologies, including RoCEv2 and/or InfiniBand.\nExperience developing RDMA-enabled software, communication libraries, networking services, or distributed infrastructure.\nStrong understanding of RDMA programming concepts, including queue pairs, completion queues, memory registration, verbs, and transport semantics.\nProficiency in C/C++ and Linux systems programming.\nExperience debugging and optimizing performance-critical software systems.\nSolid understanding of networking fundamentals, operating systems, and distributed systems concepts.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with collective communication frameworks and libraries such as NCCL, RCCL, MPI, UCX, UCC, XCCL, or similar technologies.\nExperience supporting AI/ML infrastructure and distributed training environments.\nKnowledge of GPUDirect RDMA and GPU-aware communication technologies.\nExperience developing congestion management, traffic engineering, or network resiliency solutions.\nFamiliarity with large-scale GPU clusters and high-performance computing environments.\nExperience building services and infrastructure operating directly over RDMA transports.\nFamiliarity with distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, TensorFlow, or JAX.\nExperience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud infrastructure platforms.\nUnderstanding of performance profiling and benchmarking tools for networking and distributed systems.\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. 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