Orbital Datacenter System Architect
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $184,325–$257,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $352k versus about $221k for comparable roles.
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
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As a senior technical architect at NVIDIA’s Space-1 team, you will own the end-to-end system software architecture for low-Earth orbit data centers, ensuring resilience and reliability through complex environmental challenges. Your responsibilities include co-defining interfaces and trade-offs across silicon, board, firmware, OS, and AI workload layers with the hardware architecture team, while also driving customer use cases and aligning architecture with mission requirements. Key technologies involve C/C++, Python, Redfish, MCTP, PLDM, and NVIDIA’s AI software stack including CUDA and DCGM. You will manage in-orbit firmware updates, dual-module redundancy, and fault containment for fleets ranging from tens to millions of nodes, ensuring correct operation through eclipse periods and optimizing idle-power retention strategies.
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