Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking

NVIDIA is building the software-defined network for the AI factory. Our SDN team is building an open, upstream-first stack that delivers bare-metal-class network performance and multi-tenant isolation to VMs, Kubernetes pods, and bare-metal hosts.

As a Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking, you will partner with engineering, NVIDIA ISV and cloud partners, and the open-source community to bring SDN to the AI Factory. Your core responsibilities will include:

• Setting the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for our AI Factory SDN open-source projects.
• Guiding upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes: identifying which features should land upstream, deciding what ships where, and aligning NVIDIA's work with the community's.
• Defining requirements and priorities, and making the trade-off calls that keep the roadmap focused and shippable.
• Surfacing the key product and architecture decisions and resolving them with engineering partners.
• Mapping dependencies across internal DPU, fabric, and virtualization teams and upstream releases, flagging risks early and keeping the critical path clear.
• Working with NCP operators and ISVs to translate their needs into the roadmap, ready reference deployments, and represent the work to the community and to leadership.

We are looking for a product manager who can lead a technical product end to end and go deep with engineering. You will need:

• 12+ years in technical product management, grounded in networking: SDN, data center networking, or cloud network infrastructure.
• Depth in network fundamentals: overlays/underlays, VRF, VxLAN, BGP/EVPN, ACLs, NAT, routing, and load balancing.
• Familiarity with OVN/OVS, and how logical networking maps to a hardware-offloaded data plane on a DPU or SmartNIC.
• Comfort with Kubernetes as a networking delivery surface: the CNI model, CRDs, and how pod and VM networking is provisioned and isolated.
• A track record of crafting multi-quarter product vision and shipping networking or infrastructure products together with engineering teams.
• Experience in or alongside open-source communities, and with cloud service providers or platform partners.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.