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/ML models.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Large-scale distributed GPU clusters, Kubernetes-based scheduling platforms, and tools for model training (pre-training, post-training, RL).

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / High-Performance Computing / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team leadership and hiring, distributed systems architecture, Kubernetes platform management, reliability engineering (on-call, incident response), stakeholder management with research teams, technical decision-making, written communication.

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

Kubernetes, GPU clusters, Cloud providers, Distributed storage systems, Networking.

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 infrastructure teams and external vendors; measure and prioritize based on reliability and latency metrics.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities