Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$248,000–$391,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
58 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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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 · Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering The Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering will lead and expand the global Compute Core Engineering team, recruiting and mentoring technical talent to foster a culture of ownership and innovation. This role involves defining the strategy and roadmap for infrastructure services across data centers, cloud environments, and compute platforms. Key responsibilities include modernizing legacy infrastructure into automated, self-service platforms while providing technical leadership for distributed services like DNS, DHCP, NTP/PTP, LDAP, and Linux infrastructure. The manager will establish engineering standards for performance, security, and disaster recovery using Go, Python, Terraform, and GitOps approaches. The work focuses on building reliable, scalable infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing environments, utilizing SLIs, SLOs, and capacity forecasting to ensure high availability and operational excellence across global systems.

What you'll do

  • Lead and expand the global Compute Core Engineering team by recruiting and mentoring technical talent.
  • Define the strategy and roadmap for infrastructure services across data centers, cloud environments, and compute platforms.
  • Transform traditional services into automated, self-service platforms built for reliability and scalability.
  • Provide technical leadership for globally distributed services including DNS, DHCP, NTP/PTP, LDAP, and Linux infrastructure.
  • Establish engineering standards for performance, capacity, scalability, security, and disaster recovery.
  • Lead the creation of automation platforms using Go, Python, Terraform, and GitOps approaches.
  • Establish metrics for service health, including availability, latency, capacity utilization, and infrastructure efficiency.
  • Lead forecasting activities to ensure infrastructure can handle upcoming demands.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in related fields, including significant technical leadership experience.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience crafting and managing critically important infrastructure.
  • Solid grasp of distributed systems architecture, networking technologies, and Linux operating systems.
  • Experience with container platforms, infrastructure automation, GitOps, and software engineering with Go or Python.
  • Experience using SLIs, SLOs, performance metrics, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle oversight.
  • Experience supporting large AI, HPC, or accelerated computing environments (preferred).

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