Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking
Core
Define strategy and roadmap for NVIDIA's AI Factory Software-Defined Networking (SDN) stack, guiding upstream development of OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes to deliver bare-metal-class performance for VMs, Kubernetes pods, and bare-metal hosts.
Role type
Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking
Builds
Open-source SDN stack (OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes) for NVIDIA and NVIDIA Cloud Partner DSX deployments
Domain
AI Infrastructure, Data Center Networking, Cloud Native
Deliverable
production ML models | 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 leadership, 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)
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 decisions across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes; define requirements, priorities, and trade-offs for the roadmap; resolve key product and architecture decisions with engineering partners; map dependencies across internal DPU, fabric, and virtualization teams; work with NCP operators and ISVs to translate needs into roadmap and reference deployments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
