Researcher

• Develop and maintain a forward-looking technical perspective on AI models and inference technologies
• Hold the company’s view of future data center infrastructure
• Track vendor and hyperscaler roadmaps, research, standards, startups, and venture activity across power, cooling, construction, rack and hall architecture, siting, regulation, and economics
• Formulate and validate product and engineering theses covering what to build, buy, or partner for
• Own the technical reference view of data center halls at each GPU generation, including density, power envelope, cooling topology, and site capacity
• Visit operating and prospective data center sites
• Develop and defend cost metrics including cost per rack, per MW, and per GPU-hour
• Support sales and delivery in technically demanding customer and partner conversations
• Inform product and go-to-market teams about credible capabilities and timelines
• Provide technical diligence on infrastructure partners, colocation providers, vendor reference designs, and prospective acquisitions
• Influence engineering roadmaps, infrastructure architecture, product direction, technology investments, commercial positioning, and AI workload economics
• Collaborate with senior technical and business leaders without initially managing an operational team

Applied Researcher – Data Centers

• Hold the company's view of where AI networking is going
• Track vendor and hyperscaler roadmaps, research, standards work, and the startup and venture landscape across networking fabrics, topology, optics, collectives, software, operations, telemetry, and tenant-facing capability
• Formulate and validate product and engineering theses using measured cluster performance, isolation requirements, and cost per port
• Own the company's fabric position, including scale-up/scale-out boundaries, transport choices, telemetry, and observability
• Help finance formulate cost-per-port, optics, cabling, reach, power, failure-rate, and substantiated performance analyses
• Own tenant-facing network capability for GPU-as-a-service, including multi-tenant isolation, storage traffic, and contractual commitments
• Support sales and delivery in demanding customer conversations about cluster performance
• Feed product and go-to-market teams with offerings, performance, and pricing information
• Provide technical diligence on network vendors, partners, and prospective tuck-in targets
• Collaborate with the Data Center Expert where the fabric meets the physical plant

Researcher jobs in Washington

Applied Researcher – Data Centers

Applied Researcher – Network Expert