Senior Software Manager, AI Networking

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.

We are looking for a Senior Manager to guide a customer-centered engineering team that collaborates with important customers and large-scale AI infrastructure initiatives. In this role, you will blend leadership abilities, technical knowledge, and cooperative efforts to increase NVIDIA’s networking footprint with hyperscalers, cloud providers, and AI factory environments. You will also help extend the team’s scope, enhance organizational skills, and develop rising leaders as customer demands and platform complexity evolve.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the AI Networking group, you will direct a customer focused engineering team partnering with major clients and broad AI infrastructure efforts. Your responsibilities will include guiding people, applying technical skills, and working across departments to advance NVIDIA’s networking reach in multiple environments.

• Lead, support, and grow a high-performing team of customer-facing networking engineers.

• Provide organizational and technical leadership across NVIDIA networking technologies, including BlueField, ConnectX, Spectrum-X, DOCA, RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand.

• Support large-scale customer design-in, bring-up, and deployment of current and next-generation AI systems, while preparing for future platforms.

• Engage directly with engineering, product management, architecture, and program teams to translate field requirements into product improvements and roadmap priorities.

• Build team capability through hiring, onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

• Develop future leaders by strengthening technical leadership and team ownership.

• Guide resource planning and customer prioritization across multiple strategic accounts to enhance business impact and execution quality.

• Improve team scalability by investing in debugging methods, telemetry, automation, documentation, and operational excellence.

What We Need to See:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 12+ overall years of experience in software, systems, networking, or AI infrastructure engineering.

• 5+ years of proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and managing senior engineers or technical leads.

• Strong technical background in networking and distributed systems, with an understanding of RoCE, InfiniBand, L1-L4 networking fundamentals, and large-scale system behavior.

• Experience handling customer issues and driving alignment across teams in fast-paced, high-visibility situations.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers, engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams.

• Demonstrated ability to scale impact through others and build strong team execution.

• Ability to operate effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries in dynamic environments.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Experience leading customer-facing engineering teams supporting hyperscalers, cloud providers, or large-scale AI factory deployments.

• Familiarity with technologies such as DOCA, DPDK, RDMA verbs, NCCL, CUDA-aware networking, congestion control, and telemetry or performance tuning at scale.

• Experience leading multi-functional initiatives across multiple teams, sites, or time zones.

• Established record of improving operational excellence, triage efficiency, and engineering productivity via automated and AI-enhanced workflows.

• Experience growing team scope, hiring strong talent, and building the foundation for future organizational growth.

Join us at NVIDIA and help build the future of AI networking! With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 19, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.