Head of Compute Core Engineering — AI Infra & Automation

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 391,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Manager to lead Compute Core Engineering, guiding a global team to build scalable, automated infrastructure across data centers and clouds.

You will define roadmaps, modernize legacy systems, and drive AI-enabled operations while partnering with senior engineering to improve performance and resiliency. Strong leadership, Linux expertise, and go/python skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in related fields with significant technical leadership, 5+ years in engineering management.
• Experience crafting and managing foundational infrastructure services.
• Strong networking knowledge and understanding of protocols.
• Deep experience with Linux and container platforms.
• Automation and GitOps experience; software engineering in Go or Python.
• Experience with SLIs, SLOs, and performance metrics.
• Forecasting and lifecycle oversight experience.
• Ability to lead modernization projects and communicate with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and expand the global Compute Core Engineering Team; recruit, mentor, and develop talent.
• Define strategy and roadmap for infrastructure services across data centers, cloud, and compute platforms.
• Transform services into automated, self-service platforms and modernize legacy infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership for DNS, DHCP, NTP/PTP, LDAP, and Linux infra.
• Set engineering standards for performance, capacity, scalability, security, and DR.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted operations to reduce manual toil.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to introduce technologies for performance and resiliency; build automation platforms with Go, Python, Terraform, GitOps.
• Establish service health metrics and lead incident reviews and reliability programs.
• Forecast capacity and collaborate with teams to meet future demands.
• Work with leadership and customers to build compelling infrastructure products.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking

Linux

Container platforms

Go

Python

GitOps

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Manager to lead Compute Core Engineering, guiding a global team to build scalable, automated infrastructure across data centers and clouds.

You will define roadmaps, modernize legacy systems, and drive AI-enabled operations while partnering with senior engineering to improve performance and resiliency. Strong leadership, Linux expertise, and go/python skills are essential.