Principal AI Architect

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Principal AI Architect

We have an opportunity for aPrincipal AI Architectto join our Product organization in United States reporting to the Vice President - this pivotal role you will define the architectural direction for next-generation AI data centers and AI platforms from GPU clusters and inference platforms to autonomous agent systems and multi-cloud AI deployments. Collaborating closely with Product Management Engineering Strategic Alliances and Customer Engineering you will create reference architectures best practices and customer-facing guidance that shape how enterprises designoperate and secure AI infrastructure and networking at scale.

Be a Contributor WhatYoullDo

• Define AI Infrastructure Architecture. You will create comprehensive architectural blueprints for modern AI infrastructure spanning AI factories GPU clusters distributed training environments LLM inference platforms and autonomous AI systems across hybrid and multi-cloud performance resiliency operational efficiency and security in every design and partner with Product Management and Engineering to influence long-term platform strategy.
• Architect AI-Scale Networking. You will design and document networking architectures that support thousands of GPUs with deepexpertiseacross high-performance interconnects lossless Ethernet fabrics and AI traffic engineering best practices for maximizing throughput resiliency and operational simplicity in the most demanding AI environments in the world.
• GuideAI Platform and Inference Architecture. You will develop integration patterns across major AI orchestration platforms including Kubernetes-based environmentsSlurm-managed clusters and vendor-specific AI enterprise stacks and produce reference architectures for production-grade AI serving and inference platformsoptimizedfor latency scalability and high availability.
• Drive Infrastructure Automation. You will champion automation across the AI infrastructure lifecycle including provisioning cluster deployment configuration managementGitOpsworkflows and AI operations (AIOps) helping customers and internal teams move from manual operations to self-managing observable infrastructure.
• Lead Customer Architecture Engagements. You will serve as the principal technical advisor for strategic AI infrastructure initiatives leading engagements with Chief Architects CTOs AI Platform Engineering teams and Enterprise Architecture organizations supporting customers from early design through production deployment.
• Build Strategic Partnerships. You will collaborate with leading AI infrastructure vendors and cloud providers including NVIDIA AMD Cisco Arista AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud and others to develop joint reference architectures andvalidateinteroperability across the AI ecosystem.
• Represent Infoblox as an Industry Leader. You will publish reference architectures technical whitepapers design guides and blog posts and represent Infoblox at major industry conferences and standards organizations. You will continuously evaluate emerging technologies including agentic AI distributed AI systems and autonomous infrastructure and translate them into practical architectural guidance and product strategy.

Be Prepared What You Bring

• 15 years designing enterprise networking cloud infrastructure or AI platform architectures with deepexpertisein modern data center networking and distributed systems
• Strong hands-on experience with GPU infrastructure cloud-native platforms and AI/ML infrastructure
• Solid understanding of high-performance networking technologies including Ethernet InfiniBand RoCEv2 RDMA EVPN/VXLAN and BGP at large scale
• Experience influencing technical strategy across engineering product and executive stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills you can translate complex architectural decisions into clear guidance for any audience
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or equivalent practical experience
• Preferred:
  • Hands-on experience with NVIDIA DGXSuperPOD Spectrum-X AI Enterprise or Mission Control platforms
  • Experience with AI orchestration and inference platforms such asSlurm Kubeflow RayKServe TritonTensorRT-LLMvLLM or NVIDIA NIM
  • Familiarity with observability platformsGitOps Infrastructure as CodeOpenTelemetry Cilium andeBPF
  • Knowledge of agentic AI platforms AI gateways distributed AI systems and emerging AI networking technologies
  • Demonstrated thought leadership through technical publications conference presentations oropen-sourcecontributions

Be Successful Your Path

First 90 Days:Immerse in our culture connect with mentors (BloxBuddies) and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long term goals.

Six Months:Own the development of at least one major reference architecture or customer-facing technical deliverable. Establish working relationships with key strategic partners. BeginrepresentingInfoblox in customer architecture engagements alongside senior teammates.

One Year:Serve as the primary technical voice for AI infrastructure architecture at Infoblox leading customer engagements independently publishing externally shaping product strategy and influencing the broader industry narrative around AI infrastructure

Belong Your Community

Our culture thrives on inclusion rewarding the bold ideas curiosity and creativity that move us a community where every voice counts continuous learning is the norm. So whether you code create sell or care for customersyoullgrow and belong here.

Be Rewarded Benefits That Help You Grow Thrive Belong

• Comprehensive health coverage generous PTO and flexible work options
• Learning opportunities career-mobility programs and leadership workshops
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year global employee resource groups and a No Jerks policy that keeps collaboration healthy
• Modern offices with EV charging healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake) plus hackathons game nights and culture celebrations
• Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
• We practicepaytransparency andrewardperformance. Offers reflect role location internal equity experience skills education and certifications. Base salary for this position: USD 195000 - 300300 plus bonus

Ready to Be the Difference

Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin genetic information age disability veteran status or any other legally protected basis

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