Product Application Engineer - Networking

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Key Responsibilities

• Support key customer and OEM engagements for current and next generation of AI networking and networking infrastructure products.
• Collaborate across various teams in Engineering and Marketing to help resolve critical escalations.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex, multi-layer issues spanning hardware, firmware, drivers, and software across AI infrastructure stacks.
• Develop and deliver systems/product training to customers and contribute to the knowledge base for customer support and internal partners.
• Be part of an on-call rotation to support production systems.
• Develop and integrate AI-assisted workflows (e.g., LLM-based diagnostics, predictive failure analysis, agentic automation) into support operations and tooling.
• Mentor junior engineers on technical approach, debugging methodology, and customer engagement best practices.
• Drive process improvements and define best practices for support workflows based on recurring issue patterns and field data.
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Strong fundamentals in Datacenter Networking, Routing & Switching including load balancing (ECMP), underlay/overlay technologies, and network observability.
• Strong fundamentals with the AI infrastructure stack — RDMA/RoCE, collective communication libraries (NCCL/RCCL), and distributed training and inference frameworks.
• Understanding of AI cluster networking topologies, including rail-optimized and fat-tree designs for GPU-to-GPU communication.
• Solid scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, or Shell.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional troubleshooting efforts and drive resolution for critical, multi-team escalations.
• Experience leading engagements with Hyperscalers, large enterprise, and OEM customers in a technical support role.
• Familiarity with AI-powered tooling and automation (LLMs, AI agents, copilots) for engineering productivity and support operations.
• Comfortable participating in and leading customer meetings, presenting technical findings, and translating complex issues into clear status updates for engineering leads and management.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, profilers, and source code control systems (GitHub) is a plus.
• Familiarity with DPU, SmartNIC, or InfiniBand protocol and RDMA bring-up and troubleshooting is a plus.
  
  

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