Sydney - Hybrid preferred | Australia Remote considered
About Sharon AI
Sharon AI is building the infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Operating across AI infrastructure, high-performance compute, cloud platforms and large-scale technology environments, Sharon AI delivers scalable, secure and reliable infrastructure for demanding AI, ML and HPC workloads.
The Role
As Principal Network Architect, you'll be Sharon AI's senior technical authority for networking, defining and evolving the architecture required to scale from large-scale GPU deployments into a multi-region AI infrastructure platform.
You'll bring deep expertise across both high-performance AI/HPC and GPU cluster networking, as well as WAN, carrier, internet edge and external connectivity. You'll shape the long-term network strategy across data centres, GPU clusters, storage, backbone, peering, transit, customer connectivity and cloud networking. This is a role for someone who operates several years ahead of current infrastructure demand — identifying technical and economic constraints before they become barriers to growth, while balancing performance, reliability, cost and operational simplicity.
Key Responsibilities
Define Sharon AI's long-term network strategy, architecture, standards and reference architectures across AI/HPC clusters, data centres, storage, WAN, backbone, internet edge and customer connectivity
Act as the senior technical authority for networking across Infrastructure, Platform, Operations, Product, Security and customer-facing teams
Own the architecture for large-scale AI training and inference environments, including GPU cluster fabrics supporting hundreds through to tens of thousands of GPUs
Design and govern high-performance networking architectures using technologies including NVIDIA Spectrum-X, InfiniBand, Ethernet/RoCEv2, NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, ConnectX and GPUDirect RDMA
Architect scalable leaf/spine, super-spine and multi-tier network fabrics,



with clear performance and acceptance criteria around latency, throughput, congestion, packet loss and network goodput
Define Sharon AI's regional, national and international backbone and data centre interconnect architecture
Establish carrier, fibre-route and physical-path diversity requirements to support resilient multi-site and multi-region services
Architect networks capable of supporting large-scale data movement, checkpoint transfer, storage replication and customer inter-region services
Define and own Sharon AI's long-term IPv4 and IPv6 architecture, routing policy, prefix advertisement, aggregation and traffic engineering standards
Establish architectural boundaries, failure domains, scaling limits and expansion triggers aligned to future compute, storage, facility and platform roadmaps
Drive scalable network automation and platform capabilities, including source-of-truth, configuration generation, GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
Work closely with AI/HPC architecture teams to maximise GPU utilisation and overall cluster productivity
Skills & Experience
10+ years' relevant networking experience, with substantial experience in senior architecture or technical leadership roles
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline
Demonstrated experience designing high-performance networking solutions for cloud, AI, HPC or distributed computing platforms
Proven experience designing and governing large-scale data centre networking architectures supporting mission-critical production environments




Expert knowledge of large-scale IP network architecture, including the ability to identify control-plane, data-plane and operational scaling limits
Strong understanding of networking requirements for distributed AI and HPC workloads and expertise in high-performance east-west network design
Strong knowledge of RoCEv2, InfiniBand and Ethernet AI fabrics, with an understanding of NCCL and collective communications
Expert understanding of Internet BGP architecture, transit and peering
Solid understanding of software-defined networking, Infrastructure as Code and network automation
Experience with very large AI/HPC or hyperscale environments is highly desirable, ideally including large accelerator clusters, large BGP fabrics, multi-region cloud networks or high-capacity internet edges
Exposure to next-generation technologies and roadmaps such as 800G/1.6T Ethernet, next-generation InfiniBand and silicon photonics is advantageous
Experience defining customer connectivity products for cloud platforms is advantageous
Why Join Sharon AI
Own the network architecture underpinning a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure platform
Shape Sharon AI's transition from large-scale GPU deployments to a multi-region AI infrastructure platform
Work across the full networking landscape — from GPU fabrics and data centres through to national and international backbone infrastructure
Influence major architectural decisions years ahead of infrastructure demand
Work alongside highly technical teams across AI/HPC, Infrastructure, Platform, Operations and Product
Build scalable, repeatable and increasingly automated network architectures that will support Sharon AI's next stage of growth
Join a highly technical and ambitious team operating at the forefront of AI infrastructure
Our Values
Integrity | Innovation | Collaboration | Wellbeing | Inclusion
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📌 Principal Network Architect (Sydney)
🏢 Sharon AI
📍 Sydney