Bangalore, Karnātaka, India
12 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer – Libfabric & User-Space Networking (CXI)
Principal Software Engineer – Libfabric & User-Space Networking (CXI)

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

High Performance Computing, AI and Labs is a critical element of HPE. We are focused on delivering innovative solutions that accelerate our customers’ digital transformation, enabling them to tackle their complex, and data-intensive workloads. Combining deep expertise and the development of the world’s most cutting-edge, high-performance supercomputers, is defining the next era of computing delivering valuable insight & innovation. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What you'll do:

Key Responsibilities

Architect and implement libfabric CXI providers (user-space and kernel-assisted paths):

Endpoint, MR, CQ, and queue models

SR-IOV-aware abstractions and resource sharing

Develop and maintain libcxi and related user-space libraries:

Efficient interaction with the CXI User Driver

Retry handling, error propagation, and performance tuning

Enable and optimize CXI support across ecosystem components:

MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH)

NCCL / RCCL / GPU-aware communication

SHMEM, storage, and AI frameworks

Drive performance engineering:

Latency, bandwidth, and scaling across multi-NIC and multi-GPU systems

Benchmarking, profiling, and customer workload analysis

Collaborate with kernel driver teams to co-design clean, scalable APIs

Contribute to upstream communities (libfabric, OpenMPI, NCCL) as appropriate

Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and roadmap definition

What you need to bring:

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in systems or user-space networking software

Strong expertise in:

libfabric, RDMA concepts, or high-performance communication APIs

C/C++ systems programming

Deep understanding of user/kernel interaction models and performance tradeoffs

Experience debugging complex distributed and multi-node systems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with HPC or AI communication stacks (MPI, NCCL, SHMEM)

GPU-aware networking and GPUDirect-style architectures

Familiarity with virtualization or SR-IOV impacts on user-space libraries


Alternate / Equivalent Skill Set (Network Operating Systems Background)

Candidates with a strong Network Operating System (NOS) background may be considered, provided they demonstrate deep systems expertise and the ability to work close to hardware and performance-critical paths.

Relevant Experience Includes

Hands-on development experience with carrier-grade or data-center NOS platforms, such as:

Cisco IOS-XR

Juniper Junos

Arista EOS

Or equivalent Linux-based network operating systems

Strong understanding of Linux kernel and user-space interactions in networking stacks:

Netlink, netdev, sockets, offload paths

Kernel modules, drivers, or platform abstraction layers

Experience working with high-performance data plane components, including:

Packet processing pipelines

Queueing, scheduling, QoS, and congestion management

Hardware offloads and ASIC-facing software layers

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_05

    

    

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