Principal Architect, System Software - Orbital Data Center

Nvidia

Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$272,000–$431,250 / yr
Posted
4 days ago

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Above market

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This role $352k
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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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TL;DR · Principal Architect, System Software - Orbital Data Center

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.

What you'll do

  • Own system architecture for inference stack to ensure resilience in space environments.
  • Co-architect interfaces and trade-offs across silicon, board, firmware, OS, and AI layers for 5-year missions.
  • Define manageability architecture for remote, autonomous data centers including telemetry and redundancy strategies.
  • Architect rad-tolerant system software behaviors for memory scrubbing, ECC handling, and deterministic recovery.
  • Drive modern management protocols (Redfish, MCTP, PLDM) across BMC, BIOS, and host software for seamless customer operations.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of experience in server/platform system software architecture
  • BS/MS/PhD in EE/CS or equivalent experience in building AI infrastructure
  • Strong knowledge of data center manageability and full-stack firmware integration
  • Solid understanding of hardware management interfaces and modern management protocols
  • Experience programming and debugging server platforms, including pre-silicon environments
  • Hands-on with autonomous data center operations and NVIDIA AI software stack
  • Proven technical leadership in driving complex programs across multiple engineering teams

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