Senior Solutions Architect, GPU Performance and LLM - Cloud Service Providers

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks an expert Solutions Architect to help customers build scalable AI/ML and HPC software solutions. You will work with strategic customers, providing end-to-end technology solutions and technical support aligned with our product strategy.

Responsibilities include collaborating with Sales and Developer Relations to identify opportunities, serving as the primary technical contact for AI infrastructure projects, and leading PoC development with cloud integrations across hyperscalers.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, CS, Physics, or other Engineering fields or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of engineering (performance/solution) experience.
• Hands-on experience building performance benchmarks for data center systems, including large scale AI training and inference.
• Understanding of systems architecture including AI accelerators and networking as it relates to the performance of an overall application.
• Effective engineering program management with the capability of balancing multiple tasks.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly through documents, presentations, and in external customer-facing environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and demonstrate AI/ML solutions based on NVIDIA’s software and hardware technologies for strategic customers.
• Partner with Sales Account Managers and Developer Relations Managers to identify and secure business opportunities.
• Serve as the main technical contact for customers developing AI infrastructure and evaluating performance for tasks like large-scale training and inference.
• Conduct regular technical customer meetings covering project details, feature discussions, and new technologies.
• Collaborate with customers to build PoCs and support cloud service integration for NVIDIA technology on hyperscalers.
• Analyze and develop solutions for customer performance issues for AI and systems.

Skills

Deep Learning

Cloud deployments

MLOps

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in engineering or CS

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Triton

XLA

TensorRT

NCCL

RAPIDS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Join our team at NVIDIA and help bring AI solutions to our largest customers. We are seeking an expert Solutions Architect to assist customers in building AI/ML and HPC software solutions at scale. As a member of our Solutions Architecture team, you will collaborate with strategic customers, providing end-to-end technology solutions and technical support based on our product strategy. Come join us!

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with tech giants to develop and demonstrate solutions based on NVIDIA’s groundbreaking software and hardware technologies.
• Partnering with Sales Account Managers and Developer Relations Managers to identify and secure business opportunities for NVIDIA products and solutions.
• Serving as the main technical point of contact for customers engaged in the development of intricate AI infrastructure, while also offering support in understanding performance aspects related to tasks like large scale LLM training and inference.
• Conducting regular technical customer meetings for project/product details, feature discussions, introductions to new technologies, performance advice, and debugging sessions.
• Collaborating with customers to build Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for solutions to address critical business needs and support cloud service integration for NVIDIA technology on hyperscalers.
• Analyzing and developing solutions for customer performance issues for both AI and systems performance.

What we need to see:

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or other Engineering fields or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of engineering (performance/system/solution) experience.
• Hands‑on experience building performance benchmarks for data center systems, including large scale AI training and inference.
• Understanding of systems architecture including AI accelerators and networking as it relates to the performance of an overall application.
• Effective engineering program management with the capability of balancing multiple tasks.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly through documents, presentations, and in external customer-facing environments.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Hands‑on experience with Deep Learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.), compilers (Triton, XLA, etc.), and NVIDIA libraries (TRTLLM, TensorRT, Nemo, NCCL, RAPIDS, etc.).
• Familiarity with deep learning architectures and the latest LLM developments.
• Background with NVIDIA hardware and software, performance tuning, and error diagnostics.
• Hands‑on experience with GPU systems in general including but not limited to performance testing, performance testing, and benchmarking.
• Experience deploying solutions in cloud environments including AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI as well as knowledge of DevOps/MLOps technologies such as Docker/containers, Kubernetes, data center deployments, etc.
• Command line proficiency.

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.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 12, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse 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.

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