Senior HPC Support Engineer - Ethernet and AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior HPC Support Engineer - Ethernet / AI Infrastructure to engage with prestige customers onsite and remotely, delivering comprehensive solutions for sophisticated installations and operations.

You will be the primary contact, spending time at the customer site in College Station, TX and providing ongoing technical support while collaborating with Engineering, Marketing, and Support to resolve issues and improve tools and processes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in providing in-depth Customer Support and debugging for hardware and software products.
• An academic degree from an accredited university or college in Networking, Computer Science/Engineering, or Electrical/IT (or equivalent experience).
• Shown use of established AI technologies in day-today job responsibilities.
• Established knowledge of Enterprise platform and systems engineering who understands Linux triage, knowledge about servers and can resolve hardware and/or OS internal issues.
• Intellectual curiosity, positive attitude, flexibility, analytical ability, self-motivation, and team-oriented including professional-level communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Resolve sophisticated customer concerns and issues through research, reproductions, and problem solving for customers installing NVIDIA Ethernet Switching technologies and Spectrum-X.
• Respond to product support inquiries via telephone, email or conference calls.
• Resolve issues during installation, operation, maintenance or interoperability with other vendors.
• Collaborate with engineering, marketing and support teams and provide feedback on product requirements and tools.
• Document standard methodologies for internal support processes and improvements.

Skills

Networking knowledge

Linux OS

Wireshark

TCP/IP

AI technologies

Customer support

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Networking/CS/Engineering

Tools

TCPDUMP

Wireshark

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior HPC Support Engineer - Ethernet / AI Infrastructure to be engaging with one of our prestige customers onsite and remote, passionate about data center and networking technologies, to provide comprehensive solutions for sophisticated installations, maintenance, or operations for a broad scope of groundbreaking networking products.

You will act as the primary point of contact for this customer. You will spend a minimum of one week per month at the customer site in College Station, TX, US, supporting technical questions, debugging, and issue resolution. As a member of our NVEX Global Technical Support team, you are a conscientious, proficient communicator who is fundamentally interested in taking ownership in resolving issues, while ensuring that a high level of customer satisfaction is maintained and delivered. Significant part of the role is also to collaborate with Engineering, Marketing, and Support teams regularly on technical issues.

What you will be doing:

• Ability to resolve sophisticated customer concerns and technical issues through meticulous research, reproductions, and solving problems for customers installing our products and supporting systems using Linux Operating Systems (multi-distro), with the focus on NVIDIA Ethernet Switching technologies and our End-to-End Solutions such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X.
• Responding to customer product support inquiries via telephone, email or conference calls
• Resolving customer issues during installation, operation, maintenance or product application or interoperability with other vendors
• Participate in multi-functional team meetings and giving feedback to engineering and marketing regarding product requirements, customer experience, support tools, etc.
• As a technical resource develop, re-define and document standard methodologies to provide to internal teams(Support/R&D) for support process and improvements

What we need to see:

• 6+ years in providing in-depth Customer Support and debugging for hardware and software products.
• An academic degree from an accredited university or college in Networking, Computer Science/Engineering, or Electrical/IT (or equivalent experience).
• Shown use of established AI technologies in day-today job responsibilities.
• Established knowledge of Enterprise platform and systems engineering who understands Linux triage, knowledge about servers and can resolve hardware and/or OS internal issues.
• Intellectual curiosity, positive attitude, flexibility, analytical ability, self-motivation, and team-oriented including professional-level communication skills, interpersonal skills, with the ability to maintain and lead the overall resolution for any critical issue raised by our customer, under all circumstances.

Profound knowledge and experience (solving) in the following skills:

• Networking Technology, protocols and routing including TCP, UDP, Ethernet, IP, L2, L3 (ARP, STP, LACP, MLAG, IGMP, PIM, BGP, OSPF), on Enterprise Level.
• Linux OS including System Administration and Networking (LFCS / RHCSA)
• Able to debug networking protocols using tools such as TCPDUMP and Wireshark or similar packet generation and analysis tools.
• Deep understanding of at least two of the following: data centers, servers, distributed systems, virtualization, deep learning frameworks, containers/containerization (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Adoption of AI solutions like Cursor, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Glean, etc. in your daily work routine.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Knowledge and working experience with the following:
• Experience in solving problems in large-scale networking and AI Infrastructure environments with overlay technologies (BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN), RoCE and QoS Concepts
• Linux, Networking and NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Operations Certifications such as CCONP, CCIE, JNCIE-DC/ENT, RHCE, LFCS, NCP-AII/AIO/AIN
• Shell Scripting (Python, bash, Ansible, yaml, etc...)
• Effective and comprehensive fixing / debugging methodology

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 120,000 USD - 207,000 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

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.