Familiarity with hardware and firmware interaction within complex networking platforms, including troubleshooting system-level integration, interoperability, platform reliability issues, and reliability qualification methodologies such as HALT, HASS, environmental stress testing, and accelerated life testing. Experience with data center switch platforms, merchant silicon switch architectures (Broadcom, NVIDIA, Marvell, or equivalent), high-speed optical interconnects, rack-scale networking solutions, AI networking infrastructure, or hyperscale networking environments is highly desirable.