Director, DOCA Process and Productivity

NVIDIA is seeking a highly organized Director with strong technical proficiency to lead the DOCA Process and Efficiency. This role involves managing teams, processes, and operating mechanisms that help the DOCA organization operate at scale.

The Director will bring together horizontal ownership across engineering process, security coordination, developer productivity, DevOps, integration, and product usability. The leader will define clear operating models, remove execution friction across organizational boundaries, and ensure that DOCA software, tools, and workflows are robust, secure, integrated, and intuitive from development through deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the DOCA Process and Productivity function, including cross-organizational process execution, DevOps, integration, UX/usability, security process coordination, and developer productivity initiatives.
• Own and improve operating mechanisms across DOCA R&D, QA, release, security, integration, DevOps, lab infrastructure, and partner teams.
• Serve as the Security Point of Contact for the DOCA framework, driving secure development workflows, vulnerability handling, security reviews, incident management, and alignment with NVIDIA security requirements.
• Drive improvements in build, validation, release readiness, automation, CI/CD, lab workflows, deployment experience, documentation, and end-to-end engineering productivity.
• Lead, mentor, and grow teams while helping the organization make multi-team workflows more predictable, transparent, secure, automated, accountable, and efficient.

Requirements:

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ overall years of relevant professional experience in software engineering organizations, engineering operations, DevOps, integration, technical program management, process management, or system software execution roles.
• Minimum of 7 years managing R&D engineers.
• Proven people leadership experience, including leading teams, mentoring managers or senior engineers, setting direction, and building an operational or engineering productivity function.
• Strong technical understanding of complex software systems, Linux environments, infrastructure software, integration flows, release processes, and system-level debugging.
• Experience improving engineering workflows such as integration, release readiness, CI/CD, issue handling, requirements flow, secure development, vulnerability handling, or inter-team handoffs.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align engineering leaders and turn ambiguous operational, technical, or usability problems into clear actions and priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with DOCA, BlueField DPUs, SmartNICs, cloud infrastructure, developer frameworks, data center infrastructure, or large-scale system software.
• Experience leading DevOps, integration, lab, release, engineering productivity, security process, or UX/usability functions in a complex R&D organization.
• Proven success improving out-of-box product experience, provisioning, deployment workflows, documentation quality, automation, or customer-facing integration flows.