Software Engineering Manager - Rack-Scale Infrastructure

Join NVIDIA's team in Santa Clara as a Software Engineering Manager, leading engineers building rack-scale infrastructure software. You will own delivery of control planes, lifecycle orchestration, system health, and recovery capabilities, working across hardware, firmware, networking, and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of delivering rack-scale infrastructure software within a cross-functional organisational structure
• Translate business needs and evolving hardware roadmaps into release priorities and achievable plans
• Partner with architects and technical leads on control planes, lifecycle orchestration, health analysis, and recovery
• Build and develop the team through hiring, mentoring, and clear performance expectations
• Establish effective planning, validation, release, and issue triage practices
• Coordinate with firmware, platform, networking, quality assurance, security, and operations teams to deliver coordinated capabilities
• Be responsible for the team's open-source delivery and support practices
• Communicate priorities, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to engineers, collaborators, and leadership

Requirements:

• Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of engineering experience in systems software, platform software, server firmware, or data centre infrastructure
• Proven track record delivering production software across multiple programs in a matrix organisation
• Solid technical background in Linux, distributed systems, application programming interfaces, state machines, and failure handling
• Software development experience in Go, C++, or Rust
• Proven capability to guide distributed engineering groups, recruit and nurture engineers, cultivate technical leaders

Nice to Have:

• Experience across the rack-scale systems lifecycle
• Familiarity with NVIDIA GB200 or GB300 systems
• Experience with Kubernetes controllers or operators, declarative control planes, and simulation or fault injection
• Hands-on experience with baseboard management controller software, OpenBMC, embedded Linux, Python, and server debugging
• Built open-source infrastructure software used by external teams

Benefits:

• Competitive salary ($248,000 - $391,000 per year)
• Equity and benefits package