
Senior System Software Architect, AI and GPU Networking
Summary
Senior architect role at NVIDIA's AI Networking Research team focused on accelerating AI workloads through GPU networking, transport protocols, and co-designing hardware/software systems for modern AI data centers.
About the role
NVIDIA has been defining computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. With an outstanding legacy of innovation, driven by phenomenal technology, and extraordinary people, NVIDIA is looking for a strong technical senior architect to join us in shaping the future. Senior Architects are innovators who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
As a Senior architect in the AI Networking Research team, you will explore technological challenges on accelerate networking and building AI data centers. Research new transport functions and semantics for optimizing AI workloads, AI systems communication and accelerations and much more. You will also be leading architectural and development efforts across numerous technological fields, related to the modern AI data center, such as distributed AI and deep learning solutions, data analytics, High Performance Computing (HPC), Software Defined Networking (SDN), virtualization, storage, and more.
What you’ll be doing:
Enhance NVIDIA's GPU Networking offerings for accelerating AI workloads, such as NVIDIA Dynamo, NVIDIA NIXL and NVIDIA UCX, tailored to the unique requirements of AI workloads.
Co-design hardware features (e.g., in GPUs, DPUs, or interconnects) that accelerate data movement and enable new capabilities for inference and model serving.
Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations and partner relationships for alignment with our technology roadmap and business value.
Lead architecture and design of new technologies and innovations such as runtime systems, communication libraries, AI-specific technologies.
Lead proof-of-concept development to evaluate and drive such technologies.
What we need to see:
Hold a M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering from a leading university (or equivalent experience).
8+ years of industry experience (or equivalent) in system architecture, AI systems architecture, scaling of AI, Parallelism of AI frameworks, or deep learning training workloads.
Experienced in algorithm design, system programming, computer architecture and operating systems.
Experienced in virtualization, networking and storage.
Deep understanding of performance profiling and optimization techniques, together with defining and using hardware features.
Strong programming and software development skills.
Ability and flexibility to work and communicate effectively in a multi-national, multi-time-zone corporate environment.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Shown research track record.
Have experience and passion for system architecture, CPU/GPU/memory/storage/networking.
Stellar communication skills.
Knowledge in Deep Learning frameworks and AI communication libraries (NCCL, UCX, MPI and equivalents).
Deep understanding of Inference and Training workloads and optimizations, like Prefill/Decode, data parallelism, Tensor parallelism, FDSP and others.
NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Salary not disclosed. Based on NVIDIA's known compensation bands for Staff/Senior Architect-level roles in Santa Clara, CA, total compensation (base + RSU) typically ranges from $220K–$350K+ annually. NVIDIA is known for very competitive RSU grants that can significantly elevate total comp. Base salary alone likely $180K–$240K with RSUs making up a large portion.
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