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Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.\nAbout The Role\nVolta builds and operates large scale GPU compute infrastructure for AI workloads. A single cluster is tens of thousands of GPUs, hundreds of switches, and tens of thousands of cables. At that size you cannot manage the fabric by hand, and you cannot find out whether a design works by deploying it.\nThis role builds the model and the tooling that make large topologies tractable: a machine readable source of truth for every site, generated configuration that flows from it, and a simulated fabric where changes are proven before they touch hardware. You will write the software that lets a handful of engineers run fabrics that would otherwise need a room full of people.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nOwn Volta's network source of truth: the data model covering sites, racks, devices, interfaces, cabling, addressing, and rail-optimized topology, and keep it authoritative rather than descriptive.\n\nGenerate device configuration from that model for every platform in the estate, so that config is an output of the model and never edited in place.\n\nBuild and operate a simulation environment that reproduces full cluster topologies, and make pre-deployment validation of fabric change a normal step rather than an exception.\n\nBuild the CI pipelines that validate network change: schema and policy checks, generated config diffs, simulated convergence, and reachability and routing assertions before merge.\n\nDetect and close drift between intended state and device state across sites, and make divergence visible rather than discovered during an incident.\n\nAutomate bring-up verification with the bring-up teams: cable plan generation, LLDP based cabling validation, link quality and error checks, and acceptance test suites that produce a pass or fail against the design.\n\nBuild the tooling that turns a new site from a design document into a provisioned fabric, and shorten how long that takes with each deployment.\n\nInstrument the fabric: streaming telemetry collection, topology aware metrics, and tooling that lets the team reason about a fabric of this size.\n\nWrite production Python or Go in shared repositories, under the same review, testing, and CI standards as the rest of platform engineering.\n\nSupport incident response and root cause work where modeling, simulation, or config history helps explain what happened.\n\nWhat You Bring\n4+ years in network automation, infrastructure software, or network engineering with a substantial software component.\n\nStrong Python in production: testing, packaging, code review, and CI. Our working languages are Python, Go, and Rust.\n\nData modeling experience with a network source of truth such as NetBox or Nautobot, including extending the model rather than only consuming it.\n\nConfiguration as code in practice: templated or programmatic generation, declarative and idempotent workflows, and version controlled change.\n\nNetwork fundamentals at depth: L2/L3, VLANs, BGP, ECMP, leaf spine design, and overlay protocols. You need to understand what you are modeling.\n\nHands-on experience with network simulation or emulation, for example containerlab, vendor virtual appliances, or an equivalent lab automation approach.\n\nComfort operating at scale: thousands of endpoints and hundreds of devices, where anything that does not generate or validate automatically does not happen.\n\nClear written communication. The model and its tooling are used by people who did not build them.\n\nFluency with AI-assisted development, and interest in scaling agent-assisted workflows across the team (agentic CLI tools, MCP, skills, APIs) to amplify delivery.\n\nNice to Have (But Not Essential)\nNone of these are required. Strength in one or more helps.\nConfiguration analysis or formal verification tooling such as Batfish.\n\nNVIDIA Air, SONiC virtual switch, or Cumulus based lab environments.\n\ngNMI, OpenConfig, or NETCONF/YANG for configuration and telemetry.\n\nGPU fabric exposure: RoCE v2, InfiniBand, UFM and its API, or NCCL level performance validation.\n\nGo or Rust, or interest in moving further toward systems level languages.\n\nGraph based topology modeling, or experience where topology is queried rather than diagrammed.\n\nKubernetes operators or controller patterns, and integrating network state into a control plane.\n\nAnsible, Nornir, or similar frameworks, with a view on where they stop being the right tool.\n\nOpen source contributions to networking or automation projects.\nREQ-77\n\nWhat We Offer\nAt Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of. \nAs a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.\nCompetitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary\n\nEquity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success\n\nRetirement/pension contributions\n\nComprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits\n\nGenerous number of vacation days each year\n\nAdditional Information\nBackground Checks\nAll offers of employment at Volta are conditional on the satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening, which includes confirmation of your right to work, verification of your employment history and a criminal record check, where this is permitted by local law. Screening is carried out by Zinc, an accredited third-party provider, after an offer is made and all information is handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection law.\nEqual Opportunity\nVolta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.\nAccessibility\nVolta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at . We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.\nCandidate Privacy Notice\nBy applying, you consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR and relevant US state privacy regulations. Your data will be shared only with those involved in the hiring process and will not be used for unrelated purposes. For details, see our Recruitment & Candidate Privacy Notice.\nNote to Recruitment Agencies\nVolta does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited submissions, including those sent directly to hiring managers or employees, will be treated as the property of Volta. 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