Lead Network and Product Systems Engineer
Fifty Years
Lead Network and Product Systems Engineer
Fifty Years
Seed-stage venture capital for tech impact
Dipole Labs develops photonic hardware for computing infrastructure. Our engineering work connects device physics, fabrication, electronics, optical integration and system validation.
Datacenter networking and product direction
San Francisco, California | Full-time | On site
Guide product direction at the intersection of datacenter networking, optical hardware and compute workloads. Translate deployment experience and customer needs into product choices, system requirements and convincing end-to-end validation.
Identify and compare deployment opportunities for optical networking and interconnect products. Use workload needs, network architecture, integration constraints and customer value to recommend product priorities.
Define system requirements and trade-offs for bandwidth, latency, reliability, recovery and power. Account for NICs, transports, host interfaces, optical endpoints and control overhead.
Work with customers and engineering teams to turn requirements into architecture decisions, interfaces, evaluation plans and a technically grounded product roadmap.
Design and run representative system experiments against matched baselines. Connect component measurements to workload completion, useful throughput, latency and total system power.
Lead technical discussions about deployment and product acceptance. Use measured results and integration feedback to guide engineering priorities.
Senior experience delivering datacenter networks, compute interconnects or related systems, with direct responsibility for architecture and deployment trade-offs.
Practical knowledge of NICs, transports, congestion, failure recovery and host integration, supported by hands-on performance evaluation.
Ability to connect optical-link and endpoint constraints to product requirements and customer acceptance.
Evidence of shaping product direction using technical analysis, customer input and measured system outcomes. GPU fabrics, RDMA and optical interconnect experience are valuable.
A clear product direction supported by workload and deployment evidence; requirements that guide hardware development; and reproducible system tests that establish useful performance under realistic operating conditions.
Own system requirements, deployment assumptions and technical acceptance. Work with founders on product priorities and customer engagements, and with device, optical, electrical and test engineers on implementation and validation.
Seed-stage venture capital for tech impact
Fifty Years is a venture capital firm that provides equity funding to early-stage startups, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs founders who use technology to tackle major global challenges such as climate change, disease, connectivity, and malnutrition. The firm’s approach centers on investing in scientists, engineers, and hackers building transformative businesses, with support that goes beyond money to help these startups grow. Unlike some investors, Fifty Years targets early-stage companies with potential for outsized impact and returns. The main mechanism is equity investments in young companies, with the goal of achieving significant financial returns while creating a positive, long-lasting impact on the world.
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