Senior Software Engineer, Networking Software

NVIDIA's platforms have made a significant impact in the fields of AI and Software-Defined Networking, with widespread use across leading academic institutions, start-ups, and industries- including the world's largest internet companies, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and AI innovators.

We are seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer to join our US-based networking software team. As a technical leader, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our team, developing its technological vision, and collaborating with partners on the next generation of software-defined networking products. Your primary responsibility will be customer engineering for NVIDIA Networking products, collaborating closely with hardworking groups of SDK developers, drivers and firmware engineers, DPU architects, and domain experts in security, virtualization, data science, and AI.

Join us in advancing groundbreaking technologies within a dynamic and professional environment. Join a rapidly growing team where your work will greatly influence the future of a company at the forefront of innovation.

What you'll be doing:

• Establish yourself as a technical specialist in embedded networking products, specifically the BlueField and ConnectX product lines, providing direct support to sales accounts and program managers while collaborating closely with the team to secure design wins
• Architect, design, and develop innovative, scalable, and high-performance hardware-accelerated software solutions
• Engage with strategic customers and partners to train, design, build, and productize solutions based on our networking products
• Identify customer architectures and key product and production requirements related to AI networking at hyperscale, software-defined networking, and the latest GPU hardware
• Provide technical guidance and direction to fellow developers, ensuring cohesive execution as a unified team
• Represent the group in cross-org/leadership and customer technical discussions

What we need to see:

• A Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related science degree (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ overall years of experience
• Strong affinity for innovation and a demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
• Excellent time-management and organization skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple initiatives, priorities, and implementations of new technologies and products
• Strong social skills, with experience working with developers, partners, and customers
• Diligent and comfortable multitasking in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities and changing requirements
• Excellent communication and technical presentation skills, both internally and externally with customers
• Experience in computer networking development, including fields such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), DPUs, SmartNICs, NIC drivers, OVS/OVN, DPDK, DOCA, network applications/services, networking protocols, hardware acceleration/offloads, edge services

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience working with customers and partners to develop strategic solutions
• Experience in DOCA development
• Hands-on background in Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology
• Hands-on experience in AI workloads, NCCL, CUDA, Congestion Control and performance tuning

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, Nvidia is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 356,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

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.