Senior SoC Network Subsystem Architect

About the role

The CEG NAG (Networking Architecture Group) is Intel's premier team focused on defining the future of high-performance networking silicon. Our team architects next-generation networking solutions that enable hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure, and AI workloads to achieve unprecedented performance and efficiency. We specialize in IPU/DPU platforms, advanced packet processing architectures, and programmable networking technologies that form the backbone of modern distributed computing systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end NSS architecture, including packet processing pipelines, protocol engines, and interface datapaths

• Architect high-performance packet pipelines supporting hundreds of millions of packets/sec throughput and processing flows

• Drive architectural direction for programmable vs. fixed-function pipeline balance and future extensibility

• Specify network subsystem pipeline scaling strategies and define multi-generation NSS architecture roadmap

• Lead design decisions for pipeline partitioning, feature scalability, and backward compatibility

• QoS, Scheduling, and Flow Management: Architect advanced scheduling frameworks (per-flow shaping, multi-level scheduling, traffic class isolation)

• Define QoS models to support multi-tenant workloads, virtualization, and service chaining

• Debug, Telemetry, and Observability: Define architecture for telemetry, performance counters, and real-time observability of pipeline behavior

• Architecture support for field debug, failure triage, and large-scale deployment monitoring

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate across SoC, compute, memory, SW/FW, validation, and customer teams to drive architecture closure

• Interface with external customers to translate workload requirements into NSS architecture decisions

• Lead architectural reviews and influence cross-team technical direction

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related degree with 7 + years of experience.

• You must have 7+ years of experience in the following:

  • Networking ASIC / SoC / IPU / DPU architecture
  • High-speed packet processing pipelines
  • Experience in system-level architecture tradeoffs
  • Define and deliver architecture for large-scale data center networking systems

• Experience with programmable datapath architectures (P4, pipeline microcode, or hybrid models)

• Experience with AI/HPC scale-out networking and congestion control architectures

• Transport protocols offloads

• QoS, scheduling, and multi-tenant isolation

• Familiarity with coherent or shared-memory offload models (e.g., CPU-IPU integration)

• Experience with hyperscaler deployments or customer co-design engagements