# Director, Engineering – Software Engineering

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA, a leader in AI, HPC, and Visualization, is seeking a Director, Engineering – Software Engineering to lead its Vietnam R&D Center. The successful candidate will build, lead, and scale world-class engineering teams in Vietnam, collaborating with global counterparts across system software, data science, and AI platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Build, lead and scale world-class engineering teams in Vietnam, collaborating with global counterparts across system software, data science, and AI platforms.

- Drive the design, architecture, and delivery of high-performance system software platforms that power NVIDIA’s AI products and services.

- Partner with global teams across Machine Learning, Inference Services, and Hardware/Software integration to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability.

- Oversee the development and optimization of AI delivery platforms in Vietnam, including NIMs, Blueprints, and other flagship NVIDIA services.

- Engage with open-source and enterprise data and workflow ecosystems (e.g., Temporal, Gitlab DevOps Platform, RAPIDS, NeMo Curator, Morpheus) to advance accelerated AI factory, data science and data engineering workloads.

- Champion continuous integration, continuous delivery, and engineering best practices across multi-site R&D Centers.

- Collaborate with product management and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure enterprise readiness and customer impact.

- Develop and deploy standard processes for large-scale, distributed system testing, encompassing stress, scale, failover, and resiliency testing.

- Ensure security and compliance testing aligns with industry standards for cloud and data center products.

- Mentor and develop talent within the organization, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

- 15+ overall years of software engineering experience with 6+ years in senior leadership roles.

- Proven record of managing large, high-performing software teams and delivering complex AI/ML or data-driven products.

- Expertise in cloud, data, and accelerated computing technologies (e.g., Spark, Kubernetes, Dask, Python ecosystem, CUDA).

- Experience collaborating with open-source communities and enterprise partners.

- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.

- Strategic mindset with hands-on technical depth in AI, system software, or large-scale data platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience building and scaling AI/ML Inferencing platforms from concept to production.

- Background in GPU programming, CUDA optimization, or system performance engineering.

- Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and high-performance data architectures.

- Contributions to open-source projects or developer ecosystems.

- Knowledge of deep learning, RAG, embeddings, or modern text search frameworks.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- Cloud computing
- Data science
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Spark
- Kubernetes
- Dask
- Python ecosystem
- CUDA
- Leadership
- Communication
- Cross-functional coordination

### Nice to have
- GPU programming
- CUDA optimization
- System performance engineering
- Microservices
- Distributed systems
- High-performance data architectures
- Open-source projects
- Deep learning
- RAG
- Embeddings
- Modern text search frameworks

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