Manager, Data and AI Engineering

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 322,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Manager of Data & AI Engineering to lead the development of an autonomous data intelligence platform for Supply Chain Operations. You will shape scalable data and AI platforms, architect pipelines, and drive production-ready solutions with a high-performing team.

The role requires hands-on coding, cloud expertise in AWS and Databricks, and a track record of delivering data-driven AI initiatives at scale.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or web app development, with at least 3+ years in leadership roles.
• Willingness to Code: hands-on builder who prototypes and builds production systems.
• AWS Proficiency: knowledge of S3, EC2, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway.
• Agentic AI & LLM Mastery: experience operationalizing LLMs into autonomous agents.
• Databricks Mastery: Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake; Unity Catalog experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data and AI platforms using Databricks, AWS, and modern cloud-native patterns.
• Deliver robust ETL/ELT, streaming, and CDC pipelines with Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, and AWS services.
• Enable AI-powered use cases including RAG apps, AI agents, tool-calling workflows, and data-driven web apps.
• Design data models including Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and Data Vault for analytical performance and governance.
• Implement data quality, observability, alerting, and monitoring for production pipelines.
• Build data foundations for GenAI, agentic AI, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Partner with product, business, analytics, and AI teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
• Oversee resource planning, project execution, and mentorship to foster accountability and innovation.

Skills

Leadership

AWS

Databricks

Spark/PySpark

Delta Lake

Data modeling

RAG/LLM

MLOps

Team mentoring

Cloud architecture

Education

Master's/Bachelor's in CS/IS

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Spark

PySpark

Delta Lake

Databricks Workflows

Unity Catalog

Kafka

APIs (API Gateway)

Job description

We are looking for a Manager of Data & AI Engineering who combines deep technical expertise with strong delivery leadership and people management. This role will drive the build-out of our next-generation autonomous data intelligence platform for Supply Chain Operations — from identifying high-impact opportunities to architecting, building, and productionize solutions that deliver measurable business value. The ideal candidate brings hands‑on experience in architecture and engineering while demonstrating the ability to manage a high‑performing team. This person will partner with business collaborators, translate operational challenges into data and AI solutions, and deliver at pace.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and build scalable data and AI platforms using Databricks, AWS, and modern cloud-native engineering patterns.
• Deliver robust ETL/ELT, streaming, and CDC pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, and AWS-native services.
• Enable delivery of AI-powered use cases including RAG applications, AI agents, tool-calling workflows, and data-driven web apps.
• Design data models using Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and Data Vault patterns appropriate to the use case — optimizing for analytical query performance, data governance, and extensibility.
• Implement data quality frameworks, observability, alerting, and monitoring to ensure pipeline integrity and production reliability.
• Build the data foundation for GenAI, agentic AI, and advanced analytics initiatives, including RAG pipelines, vector search, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent orchestration patterns
• Partner with product, business, analytics, and AI collaborators to translate requirements into secure, scalable, and production-ready solutions.
• Oversee resource planning, prioritization, project execution, and delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives, and mentor engineers, grow technical capability across the team, and develop a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, implementation guidance, and production readiness, and handle the full lifecycle of data engineering projects — from discovery and planning through execution and production rollout.

What we need to see:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 10+ overall years in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or web application development, with at least 3+ years specifically in a leadership or engineering management role.
• Willingness to Code: You are still a builder at heart. You are excited to spend your time writing code, prototyping, and building production systems alongside your team.
• AWS Proficiency: Intimate knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, including Amazon S3, EC2, IAM, Lambda, and API Gateway.
• Agentic AI & LLM Mastery: Proven experience operationalizing Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous agents that can plan, use tools, and implement multi‑step workflows.
• Databricks Mastery: Proven deep expertise in Apache Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, and Databricks Workflows. Hands‑on experience scaling Unity Catalog is highly preferred.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Active Databricks Certifications (e.g., Data Engineer Professional, Generative AI Engineer Associate).
• Active AWS Certifications (e.g., Certified Data Engineer – Associate or Solutions Architect – Professional).
• Background in managing multi‑functional teams that blend data engineers with front‑end and back‑end software developers.
• Knowledge of supply chain business processes for Plan, Make, Deliver & Services

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 2, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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