Senior DPU Datapath Engineer, Validation & Automation

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• 7+ years of professional engineering experience in networking, systems, or cloud infrastructure focusing on dataplane technologies and production operations.
• Hands-on engineering experience with NVIDIA DPUs (e.g., BlueField platforms), including firmware/software lifecycle and hardware offload pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Open vSwitch (OVS) configuration and pipelines, including bridges, flows, and hardware offloads.
• Technical background in cloud networking infrastructure including VPCs, routing, security policies, and overlay/underlay networking topologies.
• Proven ability to build testing, simulation, and automation frameworks using Python, Golang, or similar systems languages.
• High proficiency in network observability, benchmarking, and troubleshooting with tools like tcpdump, iproute2, and perf.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers.

Nice to have:

• Experience validating and operating NVIDIA DPU/DOCA/HBN stacks in hyperscale or cloud provider environments.
• Prior work on system-level validation for network switches, smartNICs, or specialized DPUs.
• Experience with Kubernetes environments and integrating DPUs into bare-metal node lifecycles.
• Contributions to open-source or production projects like P4, OVS, DPDK, or DOCA libraries.

• Lead a local team driving the test strategy and automation execution for OVS-based datapath and control-plane components.
• Design sophisticated automation to orchestrate DPU/host configurations and OVS pipelines.
• Integrate test beds into CI/CD pipelines to validate regression, functionality, and scalability.
• Influence long-term architecture of DPU datapath and control-plane designs for maximum testability.
• Participate in rotating on-call structures.
• Work directly with strategic vendors such as NVIDIA on escalations and hardware feature validation.

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