NVIDIA
Principal Segment Sales Lead, Host Networking Segment Sales
$248K–$397K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, WA, Seattle - Experience
- 15+ years; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Technical and commercial university degree (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Leads NVIDIA’s host networking sales strategy and customer engagement, securing DPU and SuperNIC design wins and scaling deployments for AI labs and hyperscalers.
What you'll do
- Develop and close strategic DPU and SuperNIC design wins with AI labs and hyperscaler customers.
- Build and execute the host networking segment sales strategy and coordinate cross-functional teams to define customer value propositions and deployment motions.
- Manage pipeline, executive engagement, forecasts, design-win progress, roadmap requests, and competitive insights.
What they ask for
- Technical and commercial university degree or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years in sales, business development, or go-to-market strategy for data center networking, cloud infrastructure, accelerated computing, semiconductor, or infrastructure software products.
- Experience closing strategic networking, silicon, platform, or infrastructure design wins with hyperscalers, cloud service providers, or internet-scale customers.
- Strong working knowledge of DPU, SmartNIC, SuperNIC, NIC, server networking, RDMA over Ethernet, virtualization, cloud security, storage offload, and AI data center architectures.
Nice to have
- Product and business development leadership with data center networking, cloud infrastructure, semiconductor, or systems suppliers.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA networking products and software for AI infrastructure, including DPUs, SuperNICs, Ethernet networking, accelerated compute, and large-scale AI clusters.
Pay
248,000 USD - 396,750 USD (cash compensation; 85% base salary and 15% variable compensation)
Tools
DPU, SuperNIC, SmartNIC, NIC, RDMA over Ethernet, Ethernet, RoCE/RDMA, PCIe
AI focus
Drives sales and deployment of host networking products for AI infrastructure, AI factories, GPU-accelerated computing, and hyperscaler AI workloads.
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