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Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Network Architect on our Engineering Technologist Team in London, United Kingdom.
What you'll achieve
As a Network Architect, you will act as a senior technical authority for next-generation AI infrastructure, providing architectural leadership across customers, partners, and engineering teams. You will drive the strategy, design, and optimisation of large-scale AI environments spanning AI fabrics, accelerated compute, storage, networking, power, and cooling technologies. This is a highly influential individual contributor role focused on technical leadership, innovation, and architecture rather than people management.
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You will
Design and develop scalable AI network and fabric architectures based on customer and data centre requirements, leveraging InfiniBand, Ethernet, AFL, and emerging networking technologies.
Lead the end-to-end architecture of AI infrastructure, including GPU-to-GPU connectivity, server-to-storage communication, in-rack cabling, optical design, and data centre-level network topology.
Optimise network architectures and configurations for AI training and inference workloads, ensuring maximum performance, efficiency, and scalability.
Collaborate directly with strategic customers to evaluate workloads, tune solutions, and deliver highly optimised AI infrastructure tailored to application requirements.
Partner with key technology suppliers and industry leaders to develop differentiated networking software, solutions, and architectures that integrate with AI frameworks and applications while advancing innovation in high-density, liquid-cooled data centres.
Essential Requirements
Deep expertise in AI and data center networking technologies, including Ethernet, InfiniBand, AI fabrics, switches, NICs, DPUs, optical networking, and large-scale fabric design.
Strong understanding of network topologies and architectures optimized for AI training and inference environments, including data centre network and optical distribution design.
Proven ability to translate concepts into production-ready solutions, balancing technical, business, customer, and stakeholder requirements.
Knowledge of networking standards, protocols, and industry ecosystems, with established relationships or experience working with key networking suppliers and partners.
Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills, with experience leading customer, partner, or cross-functional engineering programmes.
Desirable Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience), with expertise in networking and AI fabrics and approximately 10+ years of relevant industry experience; advanced degrees may offset experience requirements.
Experience assessing customer requirements and developing infrastructure blueprints for geographically distributed deployments, with the flexibility to travel as needed.
Who we are
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