Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Rack Scale Systems Infrastructure
Lead a Santa Clara-based engineering team at NVIDIA building rack-scale infrastructure software — control planes, lifecycle orchestration, health analysis, and recovery — for data center systems like GB200/GB300. A management role (12+ years experience) requiring technical depth in Go/C++/Rust, Linux, and distributed systems.
- Compensation
- $248K–$391K / yr
- Location
- Santa Clara, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years engineering experience in systems software, platform software, server firmware, or data center infrastructure
- 6+ years managing software or firmware engineering teams
- Track record delivering production software across multiple programs in a matrix organization
- Technical background in Linux, distributed systems, APIs, state machines, and failure handling
- Familiarity with data center architecture, hardware-conscious orchestration, server manageability, firmware/OS lifecycle, telemetry, and large-scale reliability
- Software development experience in Go, C++, or Rust, with ability to review designs and code
- Proven capability to lead distributed engineering groups, recruit, mentor, and develop technical leaders
- Clear written and verbal communication and good judgment under ambiguity
Nice to have
- Experience across the rack-scale systems lifecycle: hardware bring-up, validation, provisioning, firmware/OS updates, production operations, recovery
- 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
- Familiarity with Redfish or related standards for out-of-band management and device security
- Familiarity with accelerated computing platforms using NVLink, Ethernet, or InfiniBand
- Built open-source infrastructure software used by external teams
- Strong Rust experience
- Thoughtful use of AI tools for development, testing, and debugging
Full description
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. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.
Join our team in Santa Clara to lead engineers building rack-scale infrastructure software that makes complex hardware manageable and programmable. You will own delivery of control planes, lifecycle orchestration, system health, and recovery capabilities, working across hardware, firmware, networking, and operations teams to support customer deployments at rack and fleet scale.
What you'll be doing:
- Take ownership for the delivery of rack-scale infrastructure software within a cross-functional organizational structure. Coordinate commitments, address ownership gaps, and stay accountable for results from requirements to production adoption and support.
- Translate business needs and evolving hardware roadmaps into release priorities and achievable plans. Balance staffing, dependencies, and technical risk across projects as priorities change.
- Partner with architects and technical leads on control planes, lifecycle orchestration, health analysis, and recovery. Guide engineering tradeoffs and ensure a consistently high standard for reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Build and develop the team through hiring, mentoring, and clear performance expectations. Grow technical leads and future managers, delegate important ownership, and balance work across the team.
- Establish effective planning, validation, release, and issue triage practices. Use delivery and quality evidence to identify risks early, drive root-cause resolution of production issues, and improve how the team works.
- Coordinate with firmware, platform, networking, quality assurance, security, and operations teams to deliver coordinated capabilities. Work directly with customers and partners to turn deployment feedback into product improvements.
- Be responsible for the team's open-source delivery and support practices, including contribution review, issue triage, documentation, and release maintenance.
- Communicate priorities, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to engineers, collaborators, and leadership. Make sound decisions in ambiguous situations and carry cross-team commitments through to completion.
What we need to see:
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.