Principal Technical Program Manager
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Use fleet telemetry, performance analysis, customer signals, and operational incidents to identify systemic improvements and influence future architecture and product investments. Provide technical leadership across complex AI infrastructure systems spanning GPU and accelerated computing infrastructure, systems software, telemetry, and operations into scalable end-to-end solutions. Translate AI workload requirements into system and networking architecture requirements spanning bandwidth, latency, topology, congestion management, resiliency, security, observability, serviceability, and operational efficiency. Lead technical evaluation and architectural decision-making across technologies including InfiniBand, RDMA, advanced Ethernet fabrics, network interface devices, switches, optics, cables, GPU interconnects, and emerging AI networking technologies. Create clarity in highly ambiguous problem spaces by driving alignment on complex architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs across networking, hardware and software engineering, systems architecture, datacenter infrastructure, operations, supply chain, finance, and customer-facing organizations. Partner with internal AI workload teams and strategic customers to understand evolving training and inference requirements and convert those requirements into infrastructure capabilities and technology roadmap investments. Establish technical success criteria and engineering mechanisms for measuring performance, reliability, availability, deployment readiness, operational health, and infrastructure efficiency. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience. 10+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. 6+ year(s) experience designing, developing, deploying, or operating distributed large-scale datacenter, cloud, HPC, accelerated computing, or AI infrastructure. 6+ year(s) deep technical experience with high-performance networking technologies such as InfiniBand, Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, network interface devices, switches, routing and switching architectures, congestion management, optics, or high-speed interconnects. 6+ year(s) experience evaluating complex system architectures and translating workload requirements into technical requirements, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. 6+ year(s) experience influencing technical decisions without relying solely on direct organizational authority, including the ability to build alignment among engineering, architecture, operations, product, and business stakeholders.
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