Senior Software Manager - Data Center Performance

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work.

NVIDIA has a rapidly expanding ecosystem of data center platform & node designs. From single node HGX/DGX systems all the way up to large multi-node NVLink domain rack architectures. These designs have become core to NVIDIA's rapidly growing enterprise and cloud provider businesses. Each bringing together the full power of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA NVLink, NVIDIA InfiniBand networking, NVIDIA Grace CPUs, and a fully optimized NVIDIA AI and HPC software stack. We're searching for a highly motivated, technical manager to drive performance excellence across our diverse data center platforms. You will manage a team responsible for key aspects of our data center platform architecture and SW ecosystem. Ensuring that our products are released with industry leading performance, efficiency, quality and consistently left-shifting our time to market.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead a team that focuses on performance for our data center platforms & products. From pathfinding, pre-silicon readiness, verification, post-silicon and through to production.

• Define processes and execution methodologies for the organization to deliver on performance goals.

• Work directly with major customers to understand their performance requirements, concerns, limitations and work to align their roadmap with NVIDIA’s roadmap.

• Deliver benchmarking & telemetry infrastructure required to effectively influence design choices.

• Collaborate with NVIDIA's Architecture, SW, Platform and HPC teams on product positioning, competitive analysis and go-to-market strategy for NVIDIA's data center products.

• Deliver executive level briefings on performance and perf/W; both internally & to key customers/partners.

• Mentor architects and engineering teams to grow them into future leaders.

What we need to see:

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

• 12+ overall years in the area of system architecture and design

• 5+ years of managing a team

• Hands on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment with complex software and hardware designs

• Background in data center/server workloads and performance analysis

• Familiarity with SoC system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.)

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

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

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience in the field of data center scale performance and efficiency (perf/W)

• History of working with high-profile customers

• Familiarity with benchmarks and workloads commonly assessed by CSPs & HPC customers

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative, passionate and self-motivated, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 471,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.