Senior Solutions Architect, Networking
Nvidia - Santa Clara, CA
posted 1 day ago
About the position
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. NVIDIA networking is a world-leader fast-growing solution provider which supports the most powerful super computers and the largest data centers in the world. We accelerate outstanding artificial intelligence facilities with networking solutions based on InfiniBand, Ethernet, or RDMA. We believe in our people and products and seek excellent people to join us! We are looking for networking savvy Solution Architect to join the NVIDIA SA team focused on supporting NVIDIA networking solutions for Data Center workloads. As part of the NVIDIA Solution Architecture organization, you will be driving our end-to-end technology solutions integration with some of NVIDIA's most strategic technology customers, as well as offering recommendations to business and engineering teams on our product strategy. This dynamic role requires excellent technical and interpersonal skills to analyze, define, implement, and troubleshoot large-scale networking projects with customers and internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Working with NVIDIA Consumer Internet and IT Services customers on data center networking infrastructure projects as a solution architect.
- Guide customer journey to server/network/cluster deployments and lead discussions about data center network topologies, compute/storage etc.
- Lead presale and architecture activities with hyperscale and industry customers and implement innovative networking solutions including Spectrum switch, Quantum switch, ConnectX network adapter and Bluefield DPU.
- Conduct regular technical customer meetings for project/product roadmap, feature discussions and introduction to new technology solutions.
- Identifying new business/project opportunities for NVIDIA products and technology solutions in data center and artificial intelligence applications.
- Work closely with the Engineering, Product management and Sales teams.
- Lead and provide support for presales activities, POC, hands-on, and marketing activities.
- Preparing and delivering technical training presentations and workshops.
Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or other Engineering fields or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of Solution Engineering (or similar Sales Engineering roles) experience.
- Proven background with working with and designing data center/cloud provider network architecture.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with Ethernet Switches/Routers, congestion control methods and network protocols such as OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, Geneve, MPLS, IPSEC, iSCSI etc.
- Experience in configuring, testing, and troubleshooting in networking environments.
- Superb communication and liaison skills to work with customers, partners, and internal functions.
Nice-to-haves
- Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Networking technologies (e.g., Network Adapters, DPU, Switches).
- System level understanding of server architecture, PCIe devices, NICs, Linux OS, kernel drivers etc.
- Experience in SONiC and/or Cumulus operating systems.
- Hands-on experience with InfiniBand/RoCE products and RDMA applications.
- AI workflows knowledge.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits eligibility.
