Network Engineer, Deployment & Support

Details

Groq is building high-performance AI infrastructure designed to make inference fast, predictable, and scalable. The Network Engineering and Datacenter teams design and operate the systems that provide the compute, storage, and networking capabilities behind Groq's global AI infrastructure.

This hands-on engineering role focuses on deploying, validating, and supporting datacenter network infrastructure. The role covers front-end, back-end, management, and out-of-band networks, ensuring that switches, optics, cabling, and supporting infrastructure are installed, configured, validated, documented, and ready for production.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and validate network infrastructure across new and existing Groq datacenters, including front-end, back-end, and management networks.
• Configure and validate switches, network interfaces, optics, cabling, and supporting infrastructure against approved network designs and implementation standards.
• Develop and maintain cutsheets, port maps, cabling plans, implementation procedures, validation plans, and as-built documentation.
• Drive network deployment execution end-to-end, coordinating on-site datacenter technicians through physical rack-and-stack, cabling, and installation while owning configuration, validation, troubleshooting, and production handoff.
• Validate physical connectivity and optical performance, including fiber polarity, insertion loss, OTDR traces, transceiver health, and link-level troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot network and hardware failures across switches, optics, cabling, servers, and supporting infrastructure, and perform root cause analysis.
• Manage hardware readiness, including device staging, rack-and-stack coordination, inventory and asset record updates, RMA coordination, spares, and vendor shipments.
• Coordinate on-site deployment audits and execute QA/QC processes to ensure infrastructure meets Groq standards.
• Partner with engineering, operations, project teams, and vendors to identify and resolve deployment blockers.
• Provide technical support to global datacenter teams during and after deployments, including maintenance activities, incidents, troubleshooting, remediation, and break-fix events.
• Develop tools and scripts to improve network deployment, hardware validation, configuration, testing, and operational workflows.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to global implementation standards, deployment playbooks, and repeatable validation processes.
• Train internal teams and provide technical guidance on network deployment standards, troubleshooting procedures, and operational practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in datacenter networking, network deployment, network operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting Ethernet networks in large-scale datacenter environments, including 100G, 200G, 400G, or 800G links.
• Experience configuring and validating datacenter switches and modern network fabrics, with working knowledge of BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, and CLOS/leaf-spine architectures.
• Strong understanding of fiber-optic infrastructure, transceivers, breakout cabling, fiber polarity, insertion loss, OTDR testing, cable management, and physical installation best practices.
• Experience with cutsheets, port maps, cable schedules, rack elevations, implementation procedures, and as-built documentation.
• Hands-on experience with hardware staging, rack-and-stack, cabling, RMA processes, and physical deployment workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot across physical, network, hardware, and software layers and drive issues through root cause and resolution.
• Experience developing deployment automation or operational tooling using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies.
• Experience executing deployments across network engineering, datacenter operations, structured cabling providers, hardware vendors, and other infrastructure partners.
• Strong ownership, communication, and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple deployments and work to demanding timelines in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to travel to global datacenter locations for deployments, maintenance activities, and site-specific needs.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation supporting a 24/7 production environment.

Benefits

• Total cash salary includes potential bonus value directly in base pay.
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program.
• Employee benefits suite.
• Purposeful, mission-driven work on complex AI infrastructure challenges.

Compensation

The total cash salary range for this position is $245,800–$365,200, inclusive of potential bonus value. Individual placement depends on geographic location, experience, skills, and alignment with internal compensation standards. This range applies to candidates located in the United States. Compensation for international candidates varies based on local market dynamics.

The position may require access to technology or information subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. U.S. candidates must meet applicable citizenship, residency, protected-person, or export-license requirements, and non-U.S. candidates must meet relevant export-control eligibility criteria.