NVIDIA
Distinguished Engineer – Data Center System Software Architect
$320K–$489K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 11, 2026
- Experience
- 20+ years in system architecture and design.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Own end-to-end system software architecture for NVIDIA data center products, working with internal component leads and major cloud customers to bring current and next-generation platforms to market.
What you'll do
- Serve as the primary technical contact for major customers, defining KPIs, gathering requirements, and addressing technical questions.
- Lead architecture and technical innovation with hyperscalers, aligning NVIDIA’s roadmap with customer needs.
- Drive adoption of technologies and protocols, make critical technical decisions, and mitigate program risks through left-shift strategies.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in scalable, high-performance server architecture and software/hardware interfaces; extensive accelerator system software experience.
- Mastery of system firmware, embedded systems, and Linux kernel internals; proficiency in management architectures and protocols.
- Extensive networking knowledge; experience collaborating with platform security experts.
- Demonstrated leadership of complex cross-functional projects, including left-shift risk reduction; BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Nice to have
- Knowledge of cloud and cluster deployment and management systems; standards-body participation or contributions such as OCP and DMTF.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA HPC programming models and libraries (CUDA, cuDNN, DOCA); knowledge of enterprise storage and distributed parallel processing.
Pay
320,000 USD - 488,750 USD (base salary)
Tools
SBIOS, OpenBMC, Linux, MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, Redfish, IPMI
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