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 experience with NVIDIA DPUs (e.g., BlueField platforms) in large-scale deployments including firmware/software lifecycle and hardware offload pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Open vSwitch (OVS) configuration and pipelines, including bridges, flows, and hardware offloads.
• Solid background in cloud networking infrastructure, including VPCs, routing, security policies, and overlay/underlay networking topologies.
• Proven ability to build testing, simulation, and automation frameworks from scratch using Python, Golang, or similar systems languages.
• High proficiency in network observability, low-level benchmarking, and deep production troubleshooting using 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 within hyperscale or cloud provider environments.
• Prior experience with system-level validation for network switches, smartNICs, or specialized DPUs.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based environments and integration of DPUs into bare-metal node lifecycles.
• Active open-source or production code contributions to projects such as P4, OVS, DPDK, or DOCA libraries.

• Lead test strategy and automation execution for OVS-based datapath and related control-plane components.
• Design sophisticated automation to orchestrate DPU/host configurations and OVS pipelines.
• Integrate test beds into CI/CD pipelines.
• Validate regression, functionality, and scalability for NVIDIA software releases.
• Influence long-term architecture of DPU datapath and control-plane designs for testability.
• Participate in rotating on-call structures.
• Work with strategic vendors like NVIDIA on escalations and hardware feature validation.

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