Network Silicon Architect

Intel is hiring a Network Silicon Architect. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

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Job Description:

We are seeking a visionary senior architect to contribute to the architecture of next-generation networking silicon particularly around transport protocols and networking solutions for large-scale AI, cloud, and high-performance computing systems.
In this role, you will define how distributed systems move data efficiently, reliably, and at scale. You will drive architecture of RDMA transports, congestion management frameworks, reliability mechanisms, and collective communication optimizations that directly influence cluster performance and application efficiency.
Success requires understanding of networking, distributed systems, transport protocol design, and workload behavior. You will work across silicon, firmware, software, system architecture, and industry ecosystems to shape technologies that enable scalable AI infrastructure and next-generation datacenter fabrics.

Key Responsibilities

Transport Architecture Definition
RDMA and Fabric Architecture
Congestion Management and Network Efficiency
AI and Collective Communication Optimization
Industry and Technical Leadership

Desired Technical Expertise

Deep expertise in silicon design and silicon architecture. protocol architecture.
Strong understanding of networking technologies, including ethernet, IP and transport protocols.
Experience with congestion control, flow control, traffic engineering, and large-scale fabric behavior.
Understanding of AI communication patterns and collective operations.
Knowledge of NIC, switch, and host software interactions across the networking stack.
Experience analyzing performance and scalability limitations in distributed systems.
Ability to translate workload requirements into deployable transport and network architectures.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree, 8+ years with a master's degree, or 6+ years with a PhD in networking, distributed systems, datacenter infrastructure, silicon development or related domains.
Deep expertise in silicon development process, silicon architecture and micro-architecture.
Knowledge of networking and transport protocol architecture or RDMA extremely beneficial.
Experience architecting high-performance communication systems spanning hardware, firmware, software, and system-level components.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex networking challenges involving latency, throughput, tail performance, congestion, packet loss, and workload efficiency.
Experience translating application and workload requirements into transport, networking, and communication architecture specifications.
Strong understanding of distributed computing and communication patterns used in AI, HPC, cloud, or large-scale datacenter environments.

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (Ireland)

Primary Location:

Ireland, Leixlip

Additional Locations:

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

EU Salary

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry.

Annual Salary Range for this job which could be performed in Ireland is: ‏89,400.00 € - ‏139,700.00 € The compensation range displayed in this posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for this position. Within this range, individual pay is determined by job related skills, experience, and relevant education, training. As part of our total compensation approach, the final offer may include additional pay components and benefits. Your recruiting team will share the confirmed base salary along with any applicable total compensation elements upon employment offer delivery.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

How we rate this

Network Silicon Architect at Intel rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.