Lucid Computing
Member of Technical Staff — Network Engineer (Software)
$100K–$450K
San Francisco +2 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Remote
London
About the job
Build and secure network devices and software for an adversarially tested AI compute verification system, including traffic shaping, telemetry evidence, and verifiable receipts.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and harden network devices, protocols, and software for traffic shaping, network observation, and evidence generation.
- Develop threat models and defend novel security protocols and device designs in reviews; remediate weaknesses found by red teams.
- Collaborate with hardware, security, and verification teams on open reference architectures.
What they ask for
- Production software experience for network devices and/or large-scale network-focused applications.
- Hands-on network security experience.
- Strong L2–L4 networking fundamentals and familiarity with the Linux networking stack.
- Strong systems programming skills in languages suited to data and control planes, such as C, C++, Rust, or Go.
Nice to have
- Experience developing network device hardware or physically securing network devices.
- Experience with data-plane programming, FPGA systems, applied cryptography and attestation, or network red teaming.
Pay
$100K – $450K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Go, Linux networking stack, DPDK, XDP/eBPF, P4
AI focus
Develop and red-team network-based verification infrastructure for AI compute, including workload classification and verification of where compute runs, how it is used, and what model is loaded.
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