SVP, Network Architecture Strategy

Location: Remote – Nationwide (U.S. preferred)

A stealth-mode infrastructure innovator is redefining how large-scale AI workloads move, communicate, and thrive. Backed by industry veterans who have launched and scaled cloud, hyperscale, and edge networks used by the world’s most demanding enterprises, this company is building the blueprint for tomorrow’s AI compute fabric. As the SVP, Network Architecture Strategy, you will be the visionary behind an end-to-end networking platform that connects tens of thousands of GPUs across next-generation data centers and edge sites. Your designs will accelerate research breakthroughs, shorten model-to-market timelines, and set new benchmarks for performance and efficiency.

Why You’ll Love This Role

•  Architectural Ownership: Set technical direction for a core pillar of the business.
• Elite Peers: Collaborate with recognized leaders from top hyperscale’s and chip vendors.
• Massive Impact: Your designs will power AI breakthroughs for global customers.
• Rapid Growth & Equity: Shape a company positioned at the center of the AI infrastructure boom.
• 100 % Remote: Work from anywhere in the U.S. with flexible travel for key design reviews and summits.

Key Outcomes for the First 12–18 Months

• Deliver a reference architecture that supports exabyte-scale AI training clusters while meeting aggressive latency, bandwidth, and power targets.
• Validate a 2–3 MW prototype data-center network and create a repeatable playbook for expansion to multi-50 MW sites.
• Establish strategic silicon and system partnerships that influence roadmaps for high-bandwidth fabrics, advanced NICs, and congestion-aware transport protocols.
• Build a high-impact architecture team and implement best-in-class modeling, simulation, and benchmarking workflows.

Core Responsibilities

• Holistic Network Design: Specify topologies, routing schemes, and transport services optimized for AI training, inference, and data-intensive workflows.
• Architecture Governance: Author detailed specifications for switch fabrics, NIC technologies, and QoS policies, then shepherd them through validation and rollout.
• Technology Evaluation & Vendor Selection: Lead competitive analyses of switching, interconnect, and silicon options. Drive co-development with strategic partners.
• AI Cluster Optimization: Tune RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and emerging transport protocols to maximize throughput and minimize tail latency for GPU clusters.
• Cross-Functional Integration: Align networking plans with data-center layout, power distribution, and cooling strategies to ensure seamless scale-out.
• Proof-of-Concept Leadership: Guide lab and field trials, analyze performance data, and harden designs for production deployment.
• Executive Influence: Serve as the primary technical voice on scalability, risk, and long-term R&D direction for the company’s leadership team.

Required Qualifications

• 20 + years in large-scale networking architecture, HPC systems engineering, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success designing and delivering networks that support AI/HPC clusters or hyperscale cloud platforms.
• Deep fluency in RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, congestion control, and high-bandwidth fabric design.
• Comprehensive understanding of NIC architecture, switch ASIC pipelines, and transport-layer performance tuning.
• Proven history of hands-on technical delivery in fast-growth or greenfield environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

Preferred Attributes

• Direct engagement with silicon providers influencing next-gen interconnects.
• Experience integrating network design with data-center power, cooling, and GPU-density constraints.
• Passion for building elite, mission-driven teams that move quickly and iterate fast.

About Blue Signal:  

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