Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking

What you'll do

• Set product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap; define requirements and prioritize features.
• Guide upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes, aligning community contributions with NVIDIA releases.
• Coordinate with engineering, partners, and open-source communities to resolve product decisions, manage dependencies, and translate operator needs into roadmap and deployments.

What they ask for

• 12+ years in technical product management grounded in SDN, data center networking, or cloud network infrastructure.
• Depth in network fundamentals, including overlays/underlays, VRF, VxLAN, BGP/EVPN, ACLs, NAT, routing, and load balancing.
• Familiarity with OVN/OVS and hardware-offloaded data planes on a DPU or SmartNIC; comfort with Kubernetes networking, CNI, CRDs, and pod and VM networking.
• Track record of multi-quarter product vision and shipping networking or infrastructure products with engineering teams; experience in or alongside open-source communities and cloud service providers or platform partners.

Nice to have

• Hands-on work with OVN, OVS, or OVN-Kubernetes and the upstream cloud-native community.
• DPU/SmartNIC-accelerated networking, production BGP/EVPN fabrics, GPU/HPC cluster networking, or open-source project launch experience.

Pay

208,000 USD - 327,750 USD base salary (Level 5); 240,000 USD - 379,500 USD base salary (Level 6)

Tools

OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes, CNI, DPU, SmartNIC, Spectrum-X

AI focus

Develops software-defined networking for AI Factory deployments, including GPUDirect networking over Spectrum-X.