Cowboy Space
Space Datacenter Networking Engineer
$197K–$236K
San Carlos, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; designing or operating high-performance AI, HPC, storage, or low-latency networks.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State, to comply with ITAR export regulations.
About the job
Designs and validates the high-performance networking fabric connecting orbital compute, storage, management, spacecraft communications, and ground systems.
What you'll do
- Own network topology, protocols, addressing, routing, performance targets, and failure domains; select and integrate network hardware.
- Model network performance and build telemetry, diagnostics, fault isolation, rerouting, and recovery capabilities.
- Build and automate representative test fabrics, inject faults, lead root-cause analysis, and qualify mission-critical components and interfaces.
What they ask for
- 5+ years designing or operating high-performance AI, HPC, storage, or low-latency networks.
- Deep experience with InfiniBand, RoCE, high-performance Ethernet, or a comparable compute fabric; strong understanding of topology, congestion control, collective communication, failure domains, and telemetry.
- Hands-on experience configuring, benchmarking, and debugging network hardware; proficiency in Python or another language used for test automation and telemetry analysis.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Rail-optimized network design for distributed training or inference.
- Experience with embedded or remote networking, firmware or low-level network software, fault injection and recovery, spacecraft communications, optical inter-satellite links, or ground-link interfaces.
Pay
$196,720 - $236,484 annually (base salary)
Tools
InfiniBand, RoCE, high-performance Ethernet, Python, FPGA
AI focus
Networks support orbital AI accelerators and distributed training or inference; the role models and validates collective workloads.
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