Senior Solutions Architect - CRISP System

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for our CRISP System-Networking to increase the use of NVIDIA networking products among our clients. This is a remarkable opportunity to engage with the latest technology and work alongside a team of world-class engineers to create the future of computing.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical engagement, solution design, and deployment of NVIDIA networking products, including ConnectX NICs, BlueField DPUs, and related software stacks.
• Understand customer networking requirements across AI, HPC, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, container platforms, and enterprise data centers.
• Design and validate end-to-end network architectures connecting servers, switches, NICs, DPUs, GPUs, and storage systems, from single-node deployments to large-scale clusters.
• Support proof-of-concept projects, cluster bring-up, performance validation, deployment readiness, production issue resolution, and customer acceptance testing.
• Analyze network performance, including throughput, latency, packet loss, congestion, RDMA efficiency, and system bottlenecks.
• Provide architecture and optimization guidance for NIC virtualization, hardware offload, RDMA, RoCE, DPDK, SPDK, Open vSwitch, and related technologies.
• Work closely with NVIDIA product, software, firmware, driver, systems engineering, and sales teams to resolve customer issues and improve solution readiness.
• Collaborate with OEMs, ODMs, switch vendors, server vendors, and software partners on platform compatibility, firmware, BIOS/BMC configuration, PCIe topology, and system validation.
• Develop technical presentations, solution guides, deployment documentation, performance reports, best-practice materials, and customer training content.
• Gather customer requirements and field feedback related to product functionality, performance, interoperability, manageability, and deployment challenges.

Requirements:

• 5 years above working experience and Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or comparable experience.
• Strong knowledge of NICs, DPUs, and their hardware architecture, capabilities, deployment models, drivers, firmware, and diagnostic tools.
• Solid understanding of SmartNIC/DPU offload technologies, including RDMA, RoCE, TCP/UDP offload, overlay offload, encryption offload, virtual switching offload, and flow-processing acceleration.
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet and data center networking protocols, including L2/L3 forwarding, VLAN, VXLAN, TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, IPv6, MTU, and Jumbo Frames.
• Familiarity with network virtualization and acceleration technologies, including SR-IOV, VirtIO, vDPA, PCIe passthrough, IOMMU, PF/VF, RSS, RPS, XPS, DPDK, SPDK, Open vSwitch, and OVS-DPDK.
• Familiarity with virtualization and cloud-native networking environments, including KVM, VMware, Kubernetes, CNI, Multus, SR-IOV CNI, OpenStack Neutron, OVN, and NFV.
• Familiarity with server platform technologies, including BIOS, BMC, UEFI, Redfish/IPMI, Secure Boot, firmware lifecycle management, system bring-up, and hardware compatibility validation.