Distinguished Engineer, System Software Integration

NVIDIA Corporation; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a seasoned technical leader to own DGX Cloud full stack integration, architecting interfaces between accelerated hardware and software stacks for bare metal and virtualized deployments.

You will define the strategy across datacenter environments, including enterprise and sovereign clouds, and drive the roadmap through cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• 15-20+ years in technical roles with focus on low-level systems integration.
• Expertise delivering secure, highly available IaaS/PaaS layers.
• 7-10+ years of leadership in systems/software engineering.
• Strong understanding of full stack connectivity for bare metal and virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive DGX Cloud full stack integration across hardware, firmware, and system software.
• Lead cross-domain discipline collaboration on layered stack integration (compute, storage, networking).
• Guide delivery across varied environments: neocloud, enterprise, sovereign, high-security datacenters.
• Engage with customers, providers, and partners to set industry standards for performance and availability.
• Oversee ideation to architecture, design, deployment, and lifecycle management of software and integrations.

Skills

Low-level systems integration

Hardware-software boundary engineering

Cloud/IaaS/PaaS architecture

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Multi-tenant datacenter architectures

Education

BS/MS in systems/software engineering

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Virtualization

KubeVirt/Kata

Job description

NVIDIA is leading the industry in delivering accelerated computing in cloud and enterprise environments. We’re a team of innovative engineers dedicated to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges, constantly driving advancements, and impacting millions of lives worldwide! As a technology leader at NVIDIA, you will lead the development of DGX Cloud strategy for full stack integration. Specifically, architecting the seamless interface between accelerated hardware and software stacks to deliver bare metal and virtualized accelerated computing hardware to users. You will define and drive the technical strategy across multiple datacenter environments (enterprise, sovereign, neocloud). Including defining and developing the control and data plane systems that enable full stack integration (on-demand, scalable, metered) for accelerated computing hardware. You will work with NVIDIA leadership, cross-organizationally and cross-functionally, to establish the product definition, roadmap, and technical strategy to deliver full stack accelerated computing at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Hardware-software boundary engineering, define and drive the technical implementation for DGX Cloud full stack integration systems, focusing on the interface between hardware, firmware, and system software layers.
• Collaborate on Cross Domain Disciplines: Layered stack integration, drive the technical strategy and integrations for shared memory, storage, and networking systems, extending these capabilities through the IaaS and PaaS layers.
• Infrastructure Delivery: Guide the technical delivery across varied environments including neocloud, enterprise, sovereign, and high security private datacenters, ensuring robust full stack connectivity.
• Engage Stakeholders: Collaborate with customers, infrastructure providers, and partners to ensure NVIDIA’s solutions set the industry standard for performance and availability.
• Full Software and System Lifecycle: From ideation to architecture, design, development, deployment, operations, and full lifecycle management, lead all technical aspects of planning and continuous evolution of software, integrations, and operations.

What We Need to See:

• 15-20+ overall years in technical roles with a focus on low-level systems integration, including hardware, firmware, operating systems, and virtualization.
• Expertise in defining the abstractions and building the systems to deliver secure, highly available IaaS and PaaS layers.
• 7-10+ years of leadership experience BS/MS or higher or equivalent experience in systems / software engineering, or related engineering fields.
• Technical proficiency in multi-tenant datacenter and cloud-native architectures, with a deep understanding of full stack connectivity for bare metal and virtualization across compute, storage, and networking.
• Proven success delivering high-impact technically complex solutions that achieve high levels of transparency into resource utilization, performance, and operational insights.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to synthesize cross-functional needs into architecture and design while guiding internal execution across diverse teams.
• Communication and Teamwork: Strong collaboration and influence skills, capable of leading engineering engagement, communicating with peers, partners, and working with high performance and accelerated computing customers.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Application of Artificial Intelligence: Real world experience building the systems to support AI/ML workloads.
• Industry Expertise: Direct experience in designing, developing, delivering and operating secure, highly available, scaled out systems in enterprise and cloud environments.
• Engineering Enablement: Demonstrated history of creating scalable processes and extensible systems that facilitate cross-functional collaboration and operations at scale.
• Open Source Collaboration: Familiarity with open source ecosystems and projects in the infrastructure space (Linux, Kubernetes, CAPI, KubeVirt, Kata, …). Ability to collaborate and influence in open source project governance to represent NVIDIA, customers, and partners interests in technical alignment and direction.

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package (www.nvidiabenefits.com), we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 15, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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. NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing. Today, our AI infrastructure powers global intelligence, transforming every industry. Learn more about NVIDIA.