NextHop Systems

• Design and develop Ethernet switches, CPU subsystems, memory, and networking interfaces. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software, mechanical/thermal engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. • Perform system-level analysis, simulation, and rigorous validation and testing. • Contribute to refining and implementing best practices for design processes and standards.

• Design, build, and own large-scale test automation frameworks for network devices using both open source and custom test frameworks, covering both physical and container-based topologies. • Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines that automatically deploy container topologies, execute test plans, and publish test reports and logs. • Develop and maintain configuration workflows and schemas, integrating with the NOS agnostic configuration services to generate, validate, and apply complex configurations across multi-DUT environments. • Automate end-to-end network feature and platform testing (L2/L3, BGP/EVPN, QoS, ACLs, platform health). • Integrate and automate traffic generators (IXIA / IXIA‑c, Spirent, Snappi/OTG) to validate forwarding behavior, convergence, and performance as part of regression and release test suites. • Establish and enforce automation best practices for test structure, logging, cleanup, reusability, and reliability across multiple engineering teams. • Collaborate closely with Software and Hardware Engineering teams to design test strategies for new features, platform bring-up, and regression suites; provide early feedback on design from an automation and testability perspective. • Use well defined metrics to track test execution, quality trends, and contribution impact; define and report automation metrics such as test coverage, CI/CD pipeline efficiency, and automation adoption rates. • Mentor and guide other engineers in Python development, network test automation, and modern DevOps practices, helping to grow a strong automation culture across Nexthop AI.