NVIDIA
Principal Architect, System Software - Orbital Data Center
$272K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, Remote - Experience
- 15+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in EE/CS or related field of education (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Own the end-to-end system software architecture for orbital data center modules, delivering a resilient AI inference platform for autonomous operation in low-Earth orbit.
What you'll do
- Architect and integrate the software stack across firmware, host OS, drivers, CUDA, manageability, and telemetry.
- Define fault tolerance, redundancy, recovery, and remote fleet-management capabilities for orbital operations.
- Partner with hardware teams and customers to translate mission requirements into platform architecture and bring-up.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of relevant server/platform system software experience spanning compute libraries, BMC firmware, BIOS, host OS, drivers, and manageability.
- Working experience building AI infrastructure and systems in space, with a record delivering platform software for large-scale data centers or mission-critical embedded systems.
- Strong server architecture and data center manageability knowledge; hands-on experience with health management, telemetry, and fault management at scale.
- Strong C/C++ and Python skills; experience with platform programming/debugging, hardware management interfaces, and Redfish, MCTP, and PLDM.
Nice to have
- Experience with radiation-, thermal-, or vibration-constrained environments and related mitigation or qualification.
- Experience with autonomous remote data center operations, NVIDIA AI software, aerospace security or standards, or technical leadership of large programs.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
BMC, BIOS, host OS, GPU/CPU drivers, CUDA, DCGM, Redfish, MCTP
AI focus
Architect and deliver a production-ready AI inference platform for orbital data centers.
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