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AI/HPC Network Performance Engineer

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Compensation
$184–257K/yr
Location
Austin, TX
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Meta is expanding its AI training and inference infrastructure and seeks an engineer to build and evolve networks connecting large GPU clusters. The role focuses on reliable, high-performance networking for RDMA workloads, including network fabric, host networking, communications libraries, and scheduling infrastructure. The engineer will develop network solutions and automation, guide architecture decisions, and use production challenges to improve current and future products.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

PythonC++GoDatacenter Network EngineeringNetwork AutomationSoftware-Defined NetworkingAI Training WorkloadsAI Workflow OptimizationPrompt EngineeringContext EngineeringAgent OrchestrationResponsible AI PracticesRisk AssessmentBias MitigationQuality ReviewsAccuracy ReviewsIB NetworksRDMA NetworksRoCE NetworksRDMA Congestion ControlScale-Up Network FabricsScale-Out Network Fabrics

Qualifications

Bachelor's in CS or Related8+ Years System Performance or Network Infrastructure Experience4+ Years Large-Scale Training Network Experience

Full job description

Summary:

Meta's AI Training and Inference Infrastructure is growing exponentially to support ever increasing use cases of AI. This results in a dramatic scaling challenge that our engineers have to deal with on a daily basis. We need to build and evolve our network infrastructure that connects myriads of GPUs together. In addition, we need to ensure that the network is running smoothly and meets stringent performance and availability requirements of RDMA workloads that expects a lossless fabric interconnect. To improve performance of these systems we constantly look for opportunities across our infrastructure stack: network fabric and host networking, comms lib and scheduling infrastructure.

Required Skills:

AI/HPC Network Performance Engineer Responsibilities:

  1. Design, develop, test and operate networking systems to support large scale AI training jobs

  2. Research, develop and deploy numerous technologies and network topologies in order to evolve and scale our AI networks

  3. Work closely with our hardware, software and sourcing teams to develop new networking solutions and influence the future of networking and its associated infrastructure

  4. Define and develop optimized network automation tools and systems, including configuration, provisioning, monitoring, alarming, auto-remediation and more

  5. Be oncall to learn from real world production challenges and take the lessons to improve current and future generation products

  6. Provide guidance on network architecture including scale-up and scale-out topologies, transport protocols, and performance optimization techniques

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

  2. 8+ years of experience in system performance engineering, network infrastructure engineering, or a related field within large-scale distributed computing or HPC environments

  3. Experience coding in languages like Python, C++, Go

  4. Experience in designing, deploying and operating datacenter networks at scale

  5. Experience in network automation software leveraging software defined networking principles

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Understanding of AI training workloads and demands they exert on networks

  2. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  3. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  4. 4+ years of experience working on networks supporting large scale training workloads

  5. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

  6. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

  7. Experience working with IB/RDMA/RoCE Networks

  8. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  9. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  10. Understanding of RDMA congestion control mechanisms on IB and RoCE Networks

  11. Experience with scale-up and scale-out network fabric architectures

Public Compensation:

$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 4,081 open Network Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$184–257K/yr
  • Texas median$116–184K/yr139 salary ranges
  • US median$116–191K/yr3,166 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $221K, is 42% above the Texas median midpoint ($155K) — in the top quarter of Network Engineer salary ranges in Texas.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 251 open Network Engineer jobs in Texas and 4,081 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Network Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,527 postings).
Education
1,204 of the 4,081 open Network Engineer jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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