Nexthop AI
Automation Engineer
North Carolina · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jan 19, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 15 years; roles focused on test automation, SDET, DevOps, or network engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Designs and operates network-device test automation, CI/CD pipelines, configuration workflows, and traffic-generator testing for large-scale AI infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines for physical and container-based network topologies.
- Automate network feature, platform, forwarding, convergence, and performance testing; report quality and automation metrics.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on test strategies and platform bring-up, while establishing best practices and mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in test automation, SDET, DevOps, or network engineering, including significant responsibility for automated test systems.
- Expert-level Python and deep experience building and maintaining pytest-based frameworks.
- Proficiency in networking technologies and NOS, plus hands-on experience with network test frameworks, traffic generators, containerized topologies, CI/CD, and YAML/JSON configuration management.
Nice to have
- Experience automating SONiC or a comparable open-network NOS; familiarity with config_db, YANG models, and SAI.
- Experience with Snappi/OTG or vendor SDKs for programmatic traffic-generator control.
Tools
Python, pytest, SONiC, Docker, containerlab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI
AI focus
Supports infrastructure for large-scale AI deployments; the role focuses on network test automation, not AI development.
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