Automation Engineer

Company Description: Nexthop AI is a team of industry-leading professionals with deep hardware and software expertise spanning silicon, systems, network operations and cloud development, dedicated to building innovative, bleeding-edge solutions for large-scale AI deployments. The team culture thrives on collaboration, creativity and fun while delivering foundational technologies for next-generation AI infrastructure. Job Responsibilities: 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 st