CareerPlan

Distinguished Engineer, Storage – AI Cloud

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time2026-10-04 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead NVIDIA's storage strategy for AI Cloud, directing the architecture of high-performance parallel file systems, object stores, and block storage at exabyte scale to support tens of thousands of accelerators.

Role type

Distinguished Engineer, Storage – AI Cloud

Builds

High-performance parallel file systems, object stores, and block storage for AI training and inference workloads.

Domain

AI Cloud, Storage Technology, Accelerated Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

High-performance parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS, WEKA, VAST, BeeGFS, DAOS), Object storage (S3, Swift), Block storage (NVMe-oF, NVMesh, iSCSI), Systems programming (C, C++, Rust, Go), Python, Linux kernel storage stacks, AI coding tools, Open-source strategy

Preferred skills

Experience with 10k+ GPU scale AI training/inference, Open-source contributions/maintainership

Technologies

Lustre, GPFS, Spectrum Scale, WEKA, VAST, BeeGFS, DAOS, S3, Swift, NVMe-oF, NVMesh, iSCSI, SPDK, Linux kernel, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, Python, C, C++, Rust, Go

Responsibilities

Lead multi-year technical plans for AI Cloud Storage expansion; Serve as chief storage architect with deep hands-on involvement; Define production-ready standards and SLOs; Develop open-source strategy and APIs; Lead engineering culture centered on AI tools; Partner with peers to tackle long-term technical challenges; Mentor senior engineers and represent NVIDIA externally

Seniority

Distinguished, Strategy & Mentorship