Hyperscale Provenance: 12+ years of experience designing and shipping core infrastructure at a major hyperscaler (e.g., OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP) or a specialized HPC cloud
Deep Systems Authority: Authoritative knowledge of the Linux kernel, virtualization internals (KVM, QEMU, Firecracker), and high-performance networking (RoCE v2, InfiniBand)
Hardware-Software Co-Design: Proven ability to design software that maximizes the performance of NVIDIA/AMD GPUs and high-speed NICs
R&D Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional teams through high-ambiguity projects and delivering production-ready, mission-critical systems
Industry Contributions: A portfolio of significant contributions to the field, which may include patents, major open-source contributions, or published research in distributed systems
Communication Mastery: The rare ability to explain the nuances of memory-mapped I/O to an engineer and the business value of a new fabric architecture to the Board
Mandatory Education: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related analytical field (or equivalent professional experience)
Patent Holder: Possession of patents related to network virtualization, GPU scheduling, or distributed file systems
Open Source Leadership: Maintainer status or significant contributions to the Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, or specialized HPC projects
AI/ML Workload Expertise: Direct experience optimizing infrastructure for Large Language Model (LLM) training and inference at scale
Peer-reviewed publications at top systems venues (OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, SC), patents, IETF RFCs
Significant open-source contributions, or industry white papers on distributed systems, high-performance networking, or AI infrastructure