Network Design Engineer (Remote with 50% Travel)

<br><p><strong>About the Company</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Insight Global is searching for a Network Engineer to play a key role within our clients infrastructure team.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>This person will: Own the network design lifecycle from customer requirements (GPU shape, workload, scale, tenancy) through deployable, validated architectures for AI training and inference.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Produce topology designs, IP/addressing schemes, routing policy, and fabric configuration specs across front-end, back-end (GPU-to-GPU training fabric), and storage networks.</li><li>Adapt architectures to different GPU platforms (NVIDIA, AMD, custom accelerators), form factors, and workload profiles, each with its own rack layout, power envelope, and cabling approach.</li><li>Translate logical designs into physical reality: rack elevations, power constraints, structured cabling and fiber budgets, pathway routing, and airflow that affect equipment placement.</li><li>Design lossless Ethernet fabrics for RDMA (RoCEv2): PFC, ECN tuning, traffic classes, and congestion management, reasoning about ECMP and collective-communication patterns in distributed training.</li><li>Produce HLDs, LLDs, cutsheets, BOMs, cabling matrices, and design decision records, and lead design reviews and reusable reference architectures.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li>You've designed data center network fabrics from requirements through deployment, not just configured them, and can explain the tradeoffs behind every decision.</li><li>You have deep L1 to L3 expertise: CLOS/fat-tree topologies, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, and the fundamentals underneath them.</li><li>You design lossless RDMA (RoCEv2) fabrics and understand congestion management at training scale.</li><li>You reason from first principles through novel design challenges rather than pattern-matching to one reference architecture.</li><li>You partner across Hardware, DC Operations, ICT, Software, and Validation so designs are buildable and operationally sound.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Required Skills</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Source-of-truth-driven design generation.</li><li>Multi-vendor GPU platform integration.</li><li>Large-cluster (100k+ accelerator) experience.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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