Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the design and development of hardware to support NDR for next-generation networks

• Work closely with hardware suppliers and partners to understand and influence roadmaps of servers/systems key components and technologies and adjacent products such as switches and span aggregators

• Be the technical SME for the leading edge of hardware innovation as it relates to NDR

• Collaborate with product management to define customer requirements for hardware products accounting for feasibility development/delivery timelines and maintainability/supportability

• Collaborate with other architects and application-level software development teams to define software’s requirements for hardware performance and functionality

• Collaborate with other architects and platform-level software development teams to define and plan software changes to support new hardware features/technologies/products

• Support building out a team dedicated to delivering and supporting hardware products

• Promote a results driven culture by promoting a culture of collaboration trust transparency and productivity

Required Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of the hardware necessary to support NDR at the largest enterprise scale

• Deep experience designing and building enterprise-scale networking hardware products including collaborating with component vendors and system OEMs/ODMs

• Experience making software highly performant on enterprise-scale hardware

• Deep familiarity with relevant features performance characteristics and high-level roadmaps of hardware components and technologies such as x86/ARM server CPUs PCIe Ethernet NICs/DPUs/switches and SSDs/HDDs

• Working knowledge of C/C++

• Working knowledge of Linux

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with critical hardware supply chain logistics

• Familiarity with AI-related hardware including GPUs and RDMA

• Familiarity with hardware-relevant characteristics of high-performance network stacks/frameworks such as the Linux kernel DPDK and Nvidia DOCA

• Familiarity with applications of FPGAs in high-performance networking

The salary range for this role is between $190000 - $220000 per year + bonus + benefits