Network Engineer Deployment & Support

The posting, as Groq wrote it

About Groq
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the world's fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads.

With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, we're uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and it's still wide open. Now let's go build it!

Mission

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

We are looking for a Network Engineer, Deployment & Support to deploy, validate, and support the datacenter network infrastructure behind Groq's global AI infrastructure. As a Network Engineer, Deployment & Support, you will take network designs from implementation planning through production deployment and operational handoff. You will work across front-end, back-end, management, OOB networks, ensuring that switches, optics, cabling, and supporting infrastructure are installed, configured, validated, documented, and ready for production.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong datacenter networking fundamentals, physical-layer expertise, structured troubleshooting, and the ability to drive deployments across multiple teams and vendors.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role

• 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 detailed cutsheets, port-maps, cabling plans, implementation procedures, validation plans, and as-built documentation.
• Drive network deployment execution end-to-end, directing and coordinating on-site datacenter technicians through physical rack/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, coordinating remediation with datacenter technicians and vendor teams as needed.
• Troubleshoot network and hardware failures across switches, optics, cabling, servers, and supporting infrastructure, and perform root cause analysis for deployment and production issues.
• Manage hardware readiness for deployments, including device staging, rack/stack coordination, inventory and asset record updates, RMA coordination, spares, and vendor shipments.
• Coordinate on-site deployment audi

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