Distinguished Engineer, System Software Integration

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Competitive salary

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer specializing in System Software Integration (Finance) to lead DGX Cloud full stack integration across hardware, firmware, and software. You will architect interfaces delivering bare metal and virtualized accelerated computing, define strategy for multi-datacenter deployments, and guide end-to-end lifecycle from ideation to operation.

Ideal candidates have 15-20+ years in technical roles, 7-10+ years in leadership, and strong expertise in low-level

Qualifications

• 15-20+ years in technical roles with a focus on low-level systems integration including hardware, firmware, OS, and virtualization.
• 7-10+ years of leadership experience.
• BS/MS or higher in systems/software engineering or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Architect DGX Cloud full stack integration systems, focusing on hardware-software interface across layers.
• Guide technical strategy across datacenter environments (enterprise, sovereign, neocloud).
• Define and drive interfaces between hardware, firmware, and system software; own lifecycle from ideation to deployment.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to ensure industry-leading performance and availability.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver secure, high-availability IaaS and PaaS layers.

Skills

Low-level systems

Hardware integration

Firmware expertise

Operating systems

Virtualization

Datacenter design

Cloud architectures

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Education

BS in CS/EE

MS or higher

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

CAPI

KubeVirt

Job description

Distinguished Engineer, System Software Integration (Finance)

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:

• Various Architectural Work: 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. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're creative, passionate and self-motivated, we want to hear from you!

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. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us.

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.