Software Engineer, Fabric Management

Cornelis Networks delivers high-performance scale-out networking solutions for AI and HPC datacenters. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Fabric Management team to develop and enhance fabric management tools and infrastructure, focusing on building software for fabric topology management and performance monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain fabric management software components including topology management, routing protocols, and control plane services
• Develop and enhance fast fabric tools, diagnostic utilities, and operational tooling for fabric deployment and management
• Contribute to fabric simulation infrastructure for validation, testing, and performance analysis
• Build reliable, scalable distributed systems for managing large-scale fabric deployments
• Profile and optimize fabric management software for latency, scalability, and resource efficiency
• Write clean, maintainable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests; participate in code reviews
• Contribute to customer issue resolution and technical support when needed
• Work closely with hardware, firmware, and platform teams to integrate fabric management with switch platforms
• Maintain and improve existing codebase, addressing technical debt and enhancing reliability
• Leverage AI coding assistants and emerging tooling to accelerate development velocity and code quality

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5-7 years of software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python
• Linux systems programming experience
• Network protocol implementation or distributed systems experience
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Commitment to AI-first development practices and continuous learning of emerging AI tooling
• Kubernetes development experience (CNI, device plugins, operators) - strongly preferred
• Go/Golang proficiency
• Experience with fabric routing protocols, topology management, or distributed control planes
• InfiniBand, Omni-Path, or high-speed interconnect protocol knowledge
• HPC fabric management or cluster management experience
• Network simulation or modeling experience
• Performance optimization and profiling experience
• Open-source contribution history
• Technical leadership or mentoring experience
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks and CI/CD systems