Senior Solutions Architect, AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for the Retail Solutions Architect team, focusing on GPU, NVLink, and infrastructure design. You will help design large-scale AI training and inference clusters, collaborate with OEMs, and provide hands-on debugging for deployment and performance optimization.

The role requires 8+ years in GPU/HPC cluster design and strong cross-functional communication.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in cluster design, validation, and issue resolution on GPU and HPC clusters.
• Proven expertise in designing large-scale distributed systems, AI clusters, or HPC infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical details with technical leaders and customer executives.
• Ability to handle cross-functional communications across teams and customers.

Responsibilities

• Design GPU clusters (compute, networking, storage) for large-scale AI training clusters and modular inference clusters.
• Collaborate with OEMs to ensure successful first deployments with new products and architectures.
• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering on reference architectures, deployment and performance.
• Hands-on work to assist Enterprises in debugging issues relating to cluster design and configuration.
• Support NPI deployments with new GPU/Networking architectures.

Skills

Cluster design

GPU HPC

NVLink

Networking design

Performance modeling

Customer communication

Hands-on debugging

Enterprise deployments

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE

Job description

NVIDIA is building the world's most groundbreaking and innovative accelerated computing platforms for AI and HPC. Because of our work, scientists, researchers, and engineers can push the boundaries of what's possible. We pioneered a supercharged form of computing that powers everything from breakthrough AI research to the world's fastest supercomputers.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Solutions Architect to join the NVIDIA Retail Solutions Architect team with a focus on GPU, NVLink, and infrastructure design. In this role, you will be at the forefront of assisting with designs and architectures for some for the largest next-generation GPU-based clusters enabling the world's most advanced AI supercomputers and enterprise AI infrastructure in the field. As a Solutions Architect, you will serve as a key technical expert bridging NVIDIA's ground breaking GPU and NVLink technology designs as well as all of our software solutions directly between engineering and field teams supporting customers with the most demanding requirements. You will work on end-to-end cluster design and architecture, performance modeling, validation, and NPI cluster deployments. Your expertise will directly influence how the world's leading enterprises build their infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

• Work with customers to design GPU clusters (compute, networking, storage) that can be large scale AI training clusters to modular inference clusters.
• Work closely with OEMs to ensure successful first deployments with new products, including new network architectures and topologies.
• Feedback to Product, engineering teams on Reference architectures, Deployment and performance.
• Perform hands-on work to assist Enterprises in debugging issues relating to cluster design and configuration.
• Support NPI customer deployments with new GPU/Networking architectures.

What we need to see:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in cluster design, validation, and issue resolution, specifically on GPU and HPC clusters.
• Proven expertise in designing large-scale distributed systems, AI clusters, or HPC infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical details with technical leaders and customer executives.
• Ability to handle multi-functional communications across customer, product team, support team, engineering team, etc.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience leading large-scale AI Factory or HPC cluster bring-ups or builds.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA products including, but not limited to, GPUs, NVLink, NVIDIA Networking, etc.; specifically debugging issues that occur during deployment on NVLink, etc.
• Knowledge of NCCL, MPI, IMEX, NMX, and collectives in distributed training as it pertains to cluster designs.
• External customer facing skill-set and background.
• Effective time management and capability to balance multiple tasks and customers while thinking creatively to debug and solve problems.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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