# Forward Deployed Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Forward Deployed Architect to provide technical leadership and strategic guidance across AI Accelerator engagements. You will advise on architecture and integration, define what good looks like, and bring learnings back to inform the DSX product roadmap.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide architectural direction across strategic engagements where standard capabilities are not enough.

- Help customers integrate the right components to deliver on their outcomes.

- Dive into complex technical challenges hands-on when needed to solve critical problems.

- Lead technically demanding programs end to end, including third-party performance benchmarking.

- Identify common challenges and solution patterns across engagements.

- Develop standardized approaches, reference architectures, and structured guidance.

- Partner with product, engineering, and other customer-facing NVIDIA teams.

- Design technical strategies for advanced AI workloads.

- Help develop new infrastructure patterns and playbooks for the latest NVIDIA hardware.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

- 12+ years in technical roles such as solutions architecture, ML engineering, technical product management, or technical consulting.

- Strong technical leadership with the ability to guide teams and influence technical decisions.

- Systems thinking with the ability to understand customer outcomes and translate them into clear technical requirements and architectures.

- Willingness to prototype, implement, validate, and troubleshoot hands-on when needed.

- A solid technical foundation in the technologies AI infrastructure is built on, especially Linux systems administration.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams, executives, and multi-functional collaborators.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salaries

- Generous benefits package

- Equity eligibility

## Skills

### Required
- solutions architecture
- ML engineering
- technical product management
- technical consulting
- Linux systems administration

### Nice to have
- NVIDIA Stack
- Inference Systems
- Training Systems
- Infrastructure
- Observability and Automation

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