Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$272,000–$431,250 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
85 days ago
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About Nvidia

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, Software Engineering

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Software Engineering - JAX NVIDIA seeks a Senior Manager, Software Engineering - JAX to define and drive the company's JAX strategy across heterogeneous supercomputers. You will lead and mentor a high-performing engineering organization to ensure JAX delivers peak performance across GPUs, CPUs, and LPUs, from single-accelerator workloads to massive supercomputer scales. Key responsibilities include driving engineering contribution strategies for JAX core, XLA, Shardy, MPMD, and MaxText, while building partnerships with Google's JAX team. You will manage staffing, define success criteria, and coordinate across compiler, runtime, networking, and hardware teams. The role requires expertise in system software, compilers, high-performance computing, and AI frameworks like CUDA, cuDNN, NCCL, and TensorRT to support training, inference, and robotics workloads on next-generation architectures like Rubin Ultra.

What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $281300 from 43 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive NVIDIA's JAX strategy to ensure peak performance across heterogeneous hardware.
  • Drive the engineering contribution strategy across the JAX ecosystem stack, including XLA and MaxText.
  • Build and manage deep partnerships with key open-source projects, specifically Google's JAX team.
  • Design processes and success criteria to align multiple teams toward specific technical outcomes.
  • Create staffing plans and make strategic hiring decisions to meet future engineering needs.
  • Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization of technical leaders.
  • Coordinate with compiler, runtime, networking, and hardware teams to shape the AI platform.
  • Drive framework bring-up on next-generation hardware architectures like Rubin Ultra and LPUs.

What we're looking for

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Overall software engineering experience.
  • 4+ years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership.
  • Strong technical background in system software, compilers, high-performance computing, or AI frameworks.
  • Proven experience leading domain-level strategy and projects across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience leading teams that contribute to large-scale projects with external collaborators.
  • Hands-on experience with JAX and its systems like XLA, HLO, PJRT, Shardy, or JAX's tracing and transformation system (preferred).
  • Experience leading teams working on compiler or runtime infrastructure for deep learning frameworks (preferred).

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