# Sr Ethernet AI Network Engineer

Build More Than Just a Career. Build Your Future. At Vailexa, we’re not just hiring - we’re building thinkers, creators, and future leaders. We believe in giving people the space to grow, the freedom to think, and the opportunity to create real impact from day one. If you’re someone who wants to learn fast, take ownership, and grow beyond limits, you’ll feel right at home here. Key Responsibilities Deploy, validate, and support Ethernet fabrics used for AI and HPC cluster environments. Troubleshoot L1 through L4 issues involving optics, transceivers, cabling, link bring-up, VLANs, MLAG, ECMP, BGP, underlay/overlay reachability, congestion, and packet loss. Validate network readiness for distributed training and large east-west traffic patterns. Diagnose performance issues related to buffer pressure, microbursts, PFC behavior, QoS policy, MTU mismatch, routing instability, and oversubscription. Work closely with Linux, storage, and cluster deployment teams to isolate host-versus-network fault domains. Review and execute change plans for switch provisioning, firmware upgrades, topology expansion, and maintenance events. Capture packet-level and counter-based evidence to drive root ca

- **Id**: 3718168
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vailexa-sr-ethernet-ai-network-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States, Plano, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T21:19:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T06:30:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2777
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4417762
- **Name**: VAILEXA
- **Domain**: vailexa.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vailexa>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T01:36:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 7; Filings 12m: 7

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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