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Senior/Tech Lead AI/LLM Network Software Development Engineer - San Jose

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San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Dec 2025

About the role

About the Team

The Networking Team brings together innovative ideas and technologies from network architecture, software defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, switch software and hardware co-design, and high-speed networking, to create hyperscale data-center networking solutions that power several of the most popular apps of the world such as Douyin and TikTok which serve hundreds of millions of users around the globe.



The Networking team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in data center networking at massive scale.



Responsibilities:

- Design, implementation and deployment of high-speed network technologies to support AI/LLM applications.

- Design and development of platforms/systems for monitoring, analysis and diagnosis of large scale AI/LLM network.

- Research and development of high-performance AI communication framework, network protocol stacks, and codesign optimization of host-network-application to improve the scalability, reliability and performance of AI/LLM network.

- Building next generation AI network infrastructure supporting large scale heterogeneous network hardware with innovative and deployable solutions.

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