Qualcomm
Principal Ethernet Scale-Out Architect, AI Data Center
$221K–$332K
Santa Clara, California +2 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Austin, Texas
San Diego, California - Experience
- 8+ years of hardware architecture, design, validation, testing, or commercialization experience; 3+ years with datacenter products. Minimum qualifications also state: Bachelor's degree and 8+ years, Master's degree and 7+ years, or PhD and 6+ years in ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Architects Ethernet-based scale-out networking systems connecting AI accelerators, servers, racks, and clusters in datacenters.
What you'll do
- Define network and end-to-end system architectures and requirements for AI and cloud datacenters.
- Analyze data movement, packet flows, and system bottlenecks to improve bandwidth, latency, utilization, and scalability.
- Lead cross-functional development of connectivity solutions across hardware, software, platform, and validation teams.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of Ethernet, InfiniBand, RoCEv2, RDMA, and related transport protocols.
- Experience with datacenter products and scale-out networking and scale-up interconnect architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of Ethernet, high-speed SerDes, PCIe/CXL-class interfaces, and board/system connectivity tradeoffs.
- Understanding of telemetry, reliability, security, virtualization, DMA engines, memory hierarchy, and accelerator data movement.
Nice to have
- Understanding of PCIe, CXL, and UCIe protocols.
- Familiarity with SONiC, SAI, OpenBMC, Linux networking, and related platform software.
Pay
$221,100.00 - $331,700.00 USD base salary
Tools
Ethernet, UEC, RoCE/RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCEv2, PCIe, CXL, UCIe
AI focus
Architects networking and data-movement systems for AI datacenter deployments, including accelerator-scale connectivity.
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