Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking
Core
Define strategy and roadmap for NVIDIA's AI Factory Software-Defined Networking (SDN) stack, guiding upstream open-source development and aligning with cloud partners.
Role type
Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking
Builds
Open, upstream-first SDN stack for VMs, Kubernetes pods, and bare-metal hosts (OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes)
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Data Center Networking / Open Source
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Technical product management, SDN, data center networking, cloud network infrastructure, network fundamentals (overlays/underlays, VRF, VxLAN, BGP/EVPN, ACLs, NAT, routing, load balancing), Kubernetes networking (CNI, CRDs), open-source community management, DPU/SmartNIC networking
Preferred skills
Hands-on OVN/OVS/OVN-Kubernetes, DPU/SmartNIC hardware offload, BGP/EVPN control-plane design, GPU/HPC cluster networking (GPUDirect, RoCE, Spectrum-X), open-source contribution strategy
Technologies
OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes, Spectrum-X, DPU, SmartNIC
Responsibilities
Set product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for AI Factory SDN open-source projects; Guide upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes; Define requirements and priorities; Resolve key product and architecture decisions with engineering; Map dependencies across internal and upstream teams; Translate partner/operator needs into roadmap and reference deployments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
