# Senior HPC Developer - RDMA Networking at Clockwork

- Company: Clockwork
- What the company does: Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.clockwork.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: On Site, Palo Alto, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clockworksystems/jobs/6218348004?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clockwork-senior-hpc-developer-rdma-networking/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer – RDMA Networking & Storage to help build and optimize high-performance infrastructure for AI and HPC systems. You’ll work across RDMA networking and storage data paths , spanning compute hosts, NICs, DPUs, smart switches , storage systems, and the Linux software stack. The work includes RoCE networking, NVMe-over-Fabrics, congestion control, performance optimization, programmable network hardware, and debugging complex interactions across hardware and software. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Design, build, and optimize high-performance RDMA networking and storage systems
- Work with RoCE, RDMA Verbs, and NVMe-over-Fabrics
- Develop systems that leverage DPUs, SmartNICs, and programmable switches for packet processing, telemetry, control, and data-path acceleration
- Develop and optimize software using queue pairs, completion queues, memory registration, zero-copy I/O, and other RDMA primitives
- Debug performance and reliability issues across applications, Linux kernel, drivers, NICs, DPUs, switches, and storage systems
- Analyze network and storage behavior including latency, throughput, queueing, congestion, packet loss, retransmissions, and flow control


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clockwork-senior-hpc-developer-rdma-networking/