Senior Product Architect – AI Data Center & SONiC Networking

Senior Product Architect – AI Data Center & SONiC Networking

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

Key Responsibilities

• Architect ultra-low-latency, lossless Ethernet fabrics supporting tens of thousands of GPUs for AI training and inference.

• Own the end-to-end SONiC platform architecture and fabric strategy, spanning control plane, management plane, data-plane integration, and operations at scale.

• Define multi-generation fabric and platform strategy across switch ASICs, NICs, SerDes capabilities, cabling, and system constraints, aligned to power, performance, and deployment realities.

• Own link-level and physical-layer requirements as they impact SONiC performance, including high-speed PAM4 signaling (112G/224G), error handling, and hardware/software interaction.

• Align SONiC architectures with next-generation GPU, NIC, and switch platforms, ensuring optimal performance across hardware and software boundaries.

• Define SONiC capabilities for AI and HPC workloads, including:

  • Lossless Ethernet and RoCE

  • Congestion management, QoS, and ECN

  • Dynamic and flow-based load balancing

• Drive scale, performance, and resiliency targets for SONiC-based fabrics, including fast convergence, hitless upgrades, and failure recovery.

• Define and enforce system-level validation criteria, including scale testing, fault injection, performance benchmarking, and upgrade scenarios.

• Drive telemetry, observability, and proactive reliability across SONiC and underlying hardware to enable early fault detection and rapid root-cause analysis.

• Lead cross-layer performance analysis and root-cause investigations spanning SONiC software, ASIC pipelines, SerDes behavior, power, and thermal interactions.

• Partner with ASIC vendors, system vendors, and internal platform teams to influence roadmaps and ensure SONiC readiness and scalability.

• Serve as a technical authority and cross-functional leader, translating architectural intent into clear product requirements and multi-generation roadmaps.

Skills and Experience

• 10 plus years of experience in data center networking, AI infrastructure, or high-performance systems.

• Deep expertise in:

  • SONiC architecture and internals

  • Large-scale Ethernet fabrics

  • High-speed SerDes (112G/224G PAM4) and their impact on system performance

• Strong understanding of ASIC pipelines, buffering, ECMP behavior, and congestion mechanisms.

• Proven ability to diagnose cross-layer performance and reliability issues involving software, hardware, and physical-layer interactions.

• Hands-on experience with RDMA/RoCE, congestion control, and lossless Ethernet at scale.

• Experience with automation and tooling (Python, Ansible, Terraform) in large-scale environments.

• Industry certifications (e.g., CCIE, JNCIE, NVIDIA) or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Additional Skills:

Cross Domain Knowledge, Customer Engagement, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Go-to-Market Expertise, Partner Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Security-First Mindset, Strategic Pricing, Strategy Creation, User Experience (UX), Value Creation, Vendor Management

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or appl