CareerPlan

Manager, Software Engineering

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead an engineering team building and scaling the AI infrastructure platform (GPU clusters, Kubernetes) used by NVIDIA researchers to train frontier AI models.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Large-scale GPU clusters, Kubernetes-based scheduling platforms, and tools for pre/post-training and reinforcement learning workloads.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / High-Performance Computing / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team leadership and hiring, distributed systems architecture, Kubernetes, workload scheduling, reliability engineering, stakeholder management, technical decision-making

Preferred skills

GPU cluster management at scale, reinforcement learning infrastructure, open-source contributions, cross-timezone team leadership, AI coding tools

Technologies

Kubernetes, GPU clusters, Cloud providers

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, and grow a team of software and systems engineers; own the platform roadmap, architecture, and reliability; translate research needs into platform capabilities; drive engineering quality and automation at fleet scale; partner with internal and external infrastructure teams; measure and prioritize based on researcher metrics (latency, reliability).