Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$248,000–$391,000 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $320k
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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

As the Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering, you will lead and expand a global team responsible for critical infrastructure services across data centers, cloud environments, and compute platforms. You will manage the transition of legacy systems into automated, self-service platforms while mentoring technical talent and defining long-term roadmaps. Your daily work involves overseeing distributed services like DNS, DHCP, NTP/PTP, LDAP, and Linux infrastructure while establishing standards for performance, security, and disaster recovery. To achieve these goals, you will utilize Go, Python, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies to build automation platforms and implement AI-assisted operations. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, networking protocols, container technologies, and capacity forecasting. You will solve complex problems regarding infrastructure scalability and reliability within high-performance computing environments to ensure seamless operation for large-scale accelerated computing workloads.

What you'll do

  • Lead and expand the global Compute Core Engineering team through recruitment and talent development.
  • Define the strategy and roadmap for infrastructure services across data centers, cloud environments, and compute platforms.
  • Transform traditional infrastructure 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, security, and disaster recovery across all systems.
  • Drive automation initiatives using Go, Python, Terraform, and GitOps to reduce manual operational toil.
  • Champion AI-assisted operations to automate diagnostics and routine infrastructure tasks.
  • Lead incident reviews, reliability improvement programs, and capacity forecasting activities.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
  • Overall experience in related fields including significant technical leadership.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience.
  • Experience crafting and managing critically important infrastructure, distributed systems, and Linux operating systems.
  • Proficiency in networking technologies, container platforms, and infrastructure automation using GitOps.
  • Software engineering experience with Go, Python, or similar languages.
  • Experience using SLIs, SLOs, performance metrics, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle oversight.
  • Strong communication skills to translate technical topics for senior leadership and lead high-achieving teams.

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