Director, Network Solutions Architecture
About the role
The Director of Network Solutions Architecture is a senior customer-facing technical leader responsible for shaping and advancing strategic network architectures for hyperscaler customers.
What you'll do
- Serve as the lead solutions architect for strategic hyperscaler opportunities.
- Drive customer-facing technical strategy from initial engagement through architecture definition, design review, proof of concept, and deployment planning.
- Lead technical discovery, workshops, whiteboarding sessions, executive presentations, and cross-functional deal coordination.
- Develop end-to-end network architectures for hyperscaler environments, with emphasis on AI infrastructure and high-performance Ethernet fabrics for scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across networks.
- Build trusted relationships with senior technical and business stakeholders within hyperscaler accounts.
- Create repeatable technical assets, including network architecture blueprints, presentations, and technical position papers.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of experience in networking, systems engineering, solutions architecture, or technical business development.
- Experience working directly with large cloud, hyperscale, or web-scale infrastructure environments.
- Deep expertise in data center networking, including leaf-spine, dragonfly and optical torus architectures, routing and switching at scale, L2/L3 design, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, traffic engineering, resiliency, and operations.
- Strong understanding of networking requirements for AI/ML clusters and distributed compute infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of frontier-model communication patterns, parallelism strategies, and their implications for AI network design.
- Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Experience leading technical engagements for complex strategic accounts, including architecture reviews, design discussions, proofs of concept, and executive presentations.
- Demonstrated customer-facing credibility with both engineering teams and senior decision-makers.
- Background in both pre-sales architecture and strategic account development.
- Experience helping define early go-to-market motions for new infrastructure products.
Skills: network architectures, hyperscaler, AI data centers, Ethernet fabrics, L2/L3 design
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This role has been open 79 days — below the 80-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Networking Software
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Open roles in category
37
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Median days open
80 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$220k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Eridu AI | All employers we track in this specialty (37 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 37 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 14 | 6531 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 79 d | 80 d (−1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: network architectures, hyperscaler, AI data centers, Ethernet fabrics, L2/L3 design
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 21 open roles · median 73 d
- Analog Devices · 4 open roles · median 63 d
- Applied Materials · 1 open role · median 80 d
- Coherent Corp · 1 open role · median 122 d
- Eridu AI (this employer) · 1 open role · median 79 d
- Graphcore · 1 open role · median 144 d
How we counted: 37 open Systems Software Engineering (Networking Software) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.