Manager, Software Engineering

2100 NVIDIA USA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team of software and systems engineers building the AI infrastructure platform used by researchers and engineers. You will own a platform area end to end, shaping its roadmap, architecture, reliability and on-call health.

You will collaborate with model training teams and partner across NVIDIA and external vendors, driving quality at fleet scale and contributing to shared Kubernetes-based platform codebases.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• Track record of building and running large-scale distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire and grow a team of software and systems engineers.
• Own a core part of the AI infrastructure platform end to end.
• Translate research needs into platform capabilities and set ownership.
• Drive reliability, observability and safe rollouts across multiple clusters.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, networking and cloud teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Observability

Reliability engineering

Communication

Hiring

Scheduling platforms

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Introduction

NVIDIA is a pioneer in accelerated computing, known for inventing the GPU and driving breakthroughs in gaming, computer graphics, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence. Our technology powers everything from generative AI to autonomous systems, and we continue to shape the future of computing through innovation and collaboration. Within this mission, our team, Managed AI Research Superclusters (MARS), builds and scales the infrastructure, platforms, and tools that enable researchers and engineers to develop the next generation of AI/ML systems. By joining us, you'll help build solutions that power some of the most sophisticated computing workloads globally. We build and run the platform that NVIDIA's own researchers use to train frontier models. That means some of the largest GPU clusters in the world, spread across multiple clouds and partners, used for pre-training, post-training and reinforcement learning. Our engineers own how work gets scheduled onto that fleet, how data and checkpoints move through it, and the Kubernetes-based platform underneath.

Team Leadership Overview

We are looking for an engineering manager to lead one of these engineering teams. You will grow a team of strong engineers, own a platform area end to end, and work directly with research teams whose results depend on it. You will shape what the platform becomes, not only keep it running.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, hire and grow a team of software and systems engineers, including senior and staff-level engineers and tech leads.
• Lead a core part of the AI infrastructure platform end to end: its roadmap, architecture, reliability and on-call health.
• Turn research needs into platform capabilities by working directly with model training teams.
• Set clear ownership and decision rights for your area: named owners, written decisions, and clean interfaces to partner teams.
• Drive engineering quality at fleet scale: automation over manual operations, observability built in, safe rollouts across many clusters.
• Partner with infrastructure, storage, networking, Kubernetes and cloud-provider teams across NVIDIA, and with external vendors and open-source communities.
• Measure what matters for researchers, such as reliability, latency, and use it to set priorities.
• Contribute to the shared Kubernetes-based platform codebase, including its open-source path, alongside your own team's systems.

What We Need to See

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ overall years in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams, including leading tech leads or managers.
• A track record of building and running large-scale distributed systems in production: clusters, platforms or infrastructure services used by other engineers.
• Hands-on depth in at least one of: workload scheduling and resource management, distributed storage and data systems, or Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Hiring and growing senior engineers, and building teams that keep quality high under pressure.
• Experience owning reliability for critical services: on-call, incident response, postmortems and the fixes that follow.
• Clear written communication. You can take a contested technical question across several teams to a decision, and write it down.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd

• Experience with GPU clusters for AI training at scale: thousands of GPUs, large training runs, high-speed interconnects.
• Experience with reinforcement learning or post-training workloads and what they need from infrastructure.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects, or experience taking an internal platform open source.
• Has led teams across time zones.
• Uses AI coding and operations tools in daily work and has raised a team's productivity with them.

Compensation

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level3; and 272,000 USD – 431,250 USD for Level4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Application Deadline

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November8,2026.

Other Information

This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

Company Overview

NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing. Today, our AI infrastructure powers global intelligence, transforming every industry. Learn more about NVIDIA.