Senior Software Engineer, Networking Software

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +3 · Remote

Senior Software Engineer focused on customer engineering engagements for NVIDIA Networking products within AI factories. The role involves providing technical expertise, design-in support, and training to customers, working with internal teams and external clients to integrate networking solutions into AI infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Establish yourself as a technical expert in embedded networking products, mainly BlueField and ConnectX product lines, directly supporting sales account and program managers, working closely with the team to secure design wins
  2. Demonstrate self-sufficiency by proactively identifying solutions, independently mastering new technologies, leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate your development and productivity, and driving projects with minimal supervision
  3. Engage with strategic customers and partners to train, design, build, and productize solutions based on our networking products
  4. Identify customer architectures and key product and production requirements with regard to AI networking at hyperscale, software-defined networking, and the latest GPU hardware
  5. Represent the group in cross-org/leadership and customer technical discussions

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related science degree (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ overall years in a similar or related role
  • Knowledge of networking protocols, especially RoCE, Infiniband, and the common L1 to L4 protocols
  • Background in high-performance networking and low-level programming, with strong proficiency in C
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong time-management and organization skills for coordinating multiple initiatives, priorities, and implementations of new technology and products into sophisticated projects
  • Self-motivated to independently acquire new skills and knowledge
  • Willingness to use AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance engineering tasks and problem-solving

Nice to have

  • Experience with networking, DPDK, or DOCA
  • Proved record working with customers and developing strategic solutions
  • Embedded, Networking, DPDK, NCCL, or DOCA development experience
  • Hands-on experience in Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), AI workloads, NCCL, CUDA, Congestion Control, and performance tuning
  • Demonstrated drive for innovation and self-learning, such as independently mastering new technologies, leading projects from concept to delivery, participating in product hackathons, rapid prototyping, or contributing to patents and intellectual property

What the JD emphasized

  • customer-facing engineering role
  • expert in AI networking systems
  • customer engineering engagements
  • AI factories
  • NVIDIA Networking products
  • design-in support
  • technical expert
  • BlueField and ConnectX product lines
  • strategic customers and partners
  • AI networking at hyperscale
  • software-defined networking
  • latest GPU hardware
  • customer technical discussions
  • 5+ overall years in a similar or related role
  • networking protocols
  • high-performance networking
  • low-level programming
  • strong proficiency in C
  • analytical and problem-solving skills
  • time-management and organization skills
  • independently acquire new skills and knowledge
  • Willingness to use AI tools
  • Embedded, Networking, DPDK, NCCL, or DOCA development experience
  • Hands-on experience in Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), AI workloads, NCCL, CUDA, Congestion Control, and performance tuning
  • Demonstrated drive for innovation and self-learning