Staff Front-End Network Engineer
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
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About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide technical leadership for high-performance Ethernet front-end networks. You will evolve fabric architecture, resolve complex incidents, define engineering standards, improve reliability and observability, partner on system design, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 10–12+ years of network engineering experience.
- Experience with hyperscale data-centre, cloud, or AI infrastructure networking.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale Ethernet data-centre fabrics.
- Production expertise with Nvidia Cumulus, Arista EOS, and/or Nokia platforms.
- Knowledge of BGP, OSPF, ECMP, and EVPN-VXLAN.
- Experience with long-haul circuits, DCI, and optical transport.
- Understanding of storage networking over Ethernet.
- Ability to resolve cross-layer hardware, optics, routing, and application issues.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and influence cross-team outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction and operational improvements for front-end AI infrastructure networks.
- Design, review, and evolve large-scale Ethernet leaf-spine and Clos fabric architectures.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex network incidents and drive root-cause analysis and remediation.
- Drive initiatives that improve reliability, performance, observability, and operational maturity.
- Define engineering standards for configuration, routing, congestion management, firmware, automation, and change safety.
- Partner on end-to-end system design, including DCI and storage networking integration.
- Mentor senior engineers.
- Improve uptime, latency consistency, capacity efficiency, and incident reduction.
Benefits
- Equity.
- Medical coverage.
- Dental coverage.
- Vision coverage.
- Paid time off.
- Parental leave.
- Retirement plans.
