Emerging Network Architect

** the company
*** it is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position.  Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the company’s needs may change over time.  Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive.  The company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description.  

The company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.
*** must be legally authorized to work in the united states without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
**** benefits & perks:**
* ** company-paid lunch stipend**: lunch is provided via grubhub
* ** company-paid benefits:
** 100% employer-paid medical in our high deductible health plan, dental and vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, employee assistance program, life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability
* ** 401(k):
** company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%
* ** optional employee-paid benefits:
** medical insurance in our ppo plan and a variety of other benefits such as health savings accounts (with company contribution!), flexible spending accounts, supplemental life insurance, wellhub and more.
* ** time off:
** 25 days of paid time off plus 12 company holidays
** equal opportunity employer
** northmark strategies llc is an equal employment opportunity employer. The company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. The firm also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.northmark

compute & cloud (nmc²) is backed by dedicated leadership and investment, with a clear mission as it operates at the bleeding edge of technology. Its goal is to scale and enhance the high-performance computing (hpc) and cloud infrastructure that supports its clients' research, production, and delivery, enabling breakthroughs that shape the industries of tomorrow. Its engineers build critical infrastructure to eliminate friction in scientific research, simulations, analysis, and decision-making, accelerating discovery and driving faster innovation.
** the position
** the emerging network architect role focuses on evaluating, designing, and integrating next-generation networking technologies to support high-performance computing (hpc) platforms. This position works at the intersection of compute, storage, and networking to assess new architectures, benchmark performance, and guide technology selection aligned with scalability, efficiency, and workload requirements. Partnering closely with vendors, internal architects, and customers, the role helps translate evolving network capabilities into practical, production-ready hpc solutions that can be validated in lab environments and deployed at scale across advanced research and compute systems
** responsibilities:
*** explore opportunities from the industry to utilize future network architectures and technologies that will increase key hpc metrics like model flops utilization, and performance per watt
* develop and maintain strong technical partnerships with leading vendors in networks to incorporate their future roadmaps in our hpc platform and architectures
* recommending and justifying hardware and software solutions aligned with performance, efficiency and scalability objectives
* work with customers to understand their hpc current and future workloads and requirements and the impact on our models and performance benchmarks
* evaluate the incoming hardware and software sufficient to verify the systems in our own environment and lab setups
* aid in bottleneck identification and performance evaluation done within the team for new hardware especially as it pertains to networks, such as latency/bandwidth…