# Director, Rack Scale Software Architecture

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

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## Description

Apply for the Director, Rack Scale Software Architecture position at NVIDIA. As a highly technical manager, you will lead and manage the team responsible for rack-scale system software architecture, including firmware, kernel drivers, operating systems, networking, fabrics, and associated user mode drivers + manageability software. You will work with component leads internally and engage with industry-leading hyperscalar/cloud service providers on taking these products to market.

Key responsibilities include:

- Drive the software end-to-end architecture for NVIDIA's rack-scale products

- Maintain deep understanding of the product portfolio and roadmap; translate forward-looking plans into clear, formal software requirements that anchor execution across the organization

- Ensure high quality & reliable software; serving as a trusted architectural partner to teams requiring guidance or oversight

- Work directly with major customers to understand their requirements and work to align their roadmap with NVIDIA’s roadmap

- Using strong communication skills, present the team vision to senior NVIDIA and external leaders

- Provide technical leadership and career mentorship to the team

- Make key technical decisions even when faced with ambiguity

Requirements include:

- BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree or equivalent experience

- 15+ overall years of experience in the area of System architecture and design with 8+ yrs of proven experience in management

- Deep experience in designing architecture for scalable and performant server systems, particularly at the SW/HW interface

- Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects involving a large scale sophisticated code base

- Previous experience working with complex system software for accelerators such as GPUs, DPUs, or FPGAs

- Possess strong managerial, problem solving and critical thinking skills

- Comfortable operating in highly matrixed organizations while holding a leadership position

- Known for your strong interactive, verbal and written communications skills

Preferred qualifications include:

- Knowledge of large-scale cloud and cluster level deployment and management systems. Experience with designing robust, resilient and performant scale-up fabrics

- Demonstrated track record of leading data center products across the entire lifecycle, spanning inception, pre-silicon development, post-silicon bring-up, manufacturing, and deployment

- Strong understanding of networking technology & protocols (e.g. Ethernet, Infiniband). Familiarity with CXL, UCIE and other C2C technology architectures. Knowledge in storage and networking technologies

## Skills

### Required
- System architecture and design
- Firmware
- Kernel drivers
- Operating systems
- Networking
- Fabrics
- User mode drivers
- Manageability software
- Complex system software
- Accelerators
- GPUs
- DPUs
- FPGAs

### Nice to have
- Large-scale cloud and cluster level deployment and management systems
- Robust, resilient and performant scale-up fabrics
- Data center products
- Networking technology & protocols
- CXL
- UCIE
- C2C technology architectures
- Storage and networking technologies

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