Architect Jobs at Alibaba Group in the United States

Position: High-Performance NIC ASIC Architect

About Alibaba

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company specializing in e-commerce,  retail,  Internet, and technology. It owns and operates a diverse array of businesses around the world in numerous sectors. In overall, Alibaba is the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company, one of the largest Internet and AI companies, one of the biggest venture capital firms, and one of the biggest investment corporations in the world. In addition to that, the company hosts the largest B2B (Alibaba.com), C2C (Taobao), and B2C (Tmall) marketplaces in the world.

About position

The Alibaba Group opens a vacancy for High-Performance NIC ASIC Architect for the office of California in the United States. In addition to writing the microarchitecture specification, position holder will perform the following duties

• Analyze the requirement of a high-performance data center network, define the architecture of high-performance NIC.
• Participate in the RTL Design and development of the high-performance NIC. Also, collaborate with the software team to define the system architecture of high-performance network protocol stack and its applications.
• Work in a cross-team and open-communication culture to collaborate with multiple teams in both the US and China to delegate tasks, set deadlines and ensure deliverables.

Requirements

• Strong ASIC design expertise in the network area, including switches, routers and network interface card.
• Hands-on experience in high-performance NICs, including RDMA Rocev2, iwarp, and ToE.
• Similarly,  hands-on experience on Linux network stack, RDMA software stack, and DPDK.
• Familiarity with TCP/IP protocol stack, as well as hands-on experience on the kernel or user-space networking stack.