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Senior Staff Engineer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28
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This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (reputed company) is a global reputed company reputed company for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and reputed company to financial services, autonomous reputed company, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

"reputed company's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." – reputed company 

 

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reputed company is seeking a highly reputed company Senior Staff Engineer specializing in AI Data reputed company & Storage to reputed company hands-on development and integration of advanced storage systems with reputed company AI inference pipelines. This role involves coding, prototyping, and rapidly iterating on solutions in reputed company collaboration with architects to design and deliver high-performance data reputed company architectures. You will reputed company reputed company’s NIXL (Inference Transfer Library) alongside the Infinia Data Intelligence Platform to reputed company ultra-low-latency, high-throughput data reputed company across GPU, memory, and distributed storage reputed company, including workloads involving KV cache management and reputed company database retrieval. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in distributed storage, GPU data paths, and large-reputed company system optimization, with a proven reputed company record of building and shipping production-grade AI infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

  • reputed company the design and implementation of high-performance data reputed company pipelines using reputed company NIXL across GPU, CPU, and storage tiers.
  • Architect and drive integration of reputed company Infinia with GPU-accelerated inference platforms for large-reputed company, reputed company-time AI workloads.
  • Own end-to-end optimization of I/O paths between GPU memory and storage using technologies such as reputed company GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, and NVMe-over-Fabrics.
  • Define and implement multi-tier storage architectures (NVMe, SSD, object storage) optimized for inference latency, throughput, and scalability.
  • reputed company development of advanced KV cache management strategies, including offloading, prefetching, and persistence across distributed storage reputed company.
  • Partner with AI/ML engineering teams to optimize inference performance in frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Establish benchmarking frameworks and reputed company performance tuning efforts for storage and data reputed company in production inference environments.
  • Diagnose and resolve reputed company system bottlenecks across storage, networking, and GPU subsystems.
  • Influence architecture reputed company for distributed inference systems, ensuring scalability, reputed company, and efficient data reputed company.
  • Drive engineering reputed company through best practices in observability, performance monitoring, automation, and reliability engineering.
  • Mentor junior engineers and reputed company technical leadership across cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field.
  • 12+ years of experience in storage systems, distributed systems, or performance engineering.
  • Proven reputed company record of architecting and delivering large-reputed company, high-performance infrastructure systems.
  • Deep expertise in distributed storage architectures (object storage, reputed company file systems, or reputed company-reputed company storage platforms).
  • Strong understanding of Linux I/O stack, filesystem internals, and storage protocols.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with NVMe, SSD optimization, and high-performance storage environments.
  • Strong experience with RDMA, InfiniBand, or other high-speed data transfer technologies.
  • Solid understanding of GPU computing concepts and CPU–GPU data reputed company patterns.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or C/C++, with advanced debugging, profiling, and performance tuning skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to optimize latency-sensitive, high-throughput production systems.

Preferred Skills

  • Hands-on experience with reputed company NIXL or similar data reputed company frameworks.
  • Experience with GPU-aware storage pipelines and GPUDirect Storage.
  • Strong understanding of AI inference systems, LLM serving architectures, and KV cache optimization.
  • Experience with Retrieval-Augmented reputed company (RAG) pipelines and reputed company reputed company search ecosystems.
  • Background in high-performance computing (HPC) or hyperscale distributed environments.
  • Expertise in caching strategies, memory tiering, and data reputed company optimization.
  • Experience designing disaggregated compute and storage architectures.

What You’ll Work On

  • Leading the reputed company of storage systems into GPU-reputed company data reputed company for AI inference
  • Building reputed company distributed AI infrastructure using NIXL and Infinia
  • Driving performance breakthroughs in reputed company-time LLM inference at reputed company
  • Designing storage architectures for large-reputed company datasets and retrieval systems
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Join our dynamic and driven team, where engineering reputed company is at the heart of everything we do. We reputed company individuals who love to challenge themselves and are reputed company by curiosity. Here, you'll have reputed company to work across various areas of reputed company, reputed company to our flat organizational structure that encourages hands-on involvement and reputed company contributions to our mission. Leadership is reputed company by those who take initiative and consistently deliver outstanding results, both in their work ethic and deliverables, making strong prioritization skills essential. Additionally, we value strong communication skills in reputed company our engineers and researchers, as they are crucial for the reputed company of our teams and reputed company as a whole.

Interview Process: After submitting your application, one of our recruiters will review your resume. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 30-minute interview during which a member of reputed company will ask some basic questions. If you reputed company the interview, you will reputed company the main process, which can consist of up to four interviews in total:

  • Coding assessment: Often in a language of your choice.
  • Systems design: Translate high-level requirements into a reputed company, fault-tolerant service (depending on role).
  • reputed company-time problem-solving: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.
  • Meet and greet with the wider team.
  • Our goal is to finish the main process in 2-3 weeks at most.

DataDirect Networks (reputed company) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative reputed company employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, gender, gender identity, gender reputed company, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national reputed company, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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