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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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Senior Software Engineer - Cluster Networking joins the Managed AI Research Superclusters team to lead network architecture for GPU superclusters. This role involves owning internal and external cluster communications, including CNI data planes, overlay meshes, and multi-region gateways. The engineer will design and scale Kubernetes networking architectures, manage VPN topologies using Tailscale or WireGuard, and operate L7 gateways and load balancers like Envoy. Key responsibilities include identifying scale ceilings such as packet loss and control-plane saturation while building validation suites to catch regressions. Required skills include deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking, CNI standards, Linux fundamentals like netfilter and iptables, and proficiency in Go, Python, or C. The role addresses the complex engineering challenges of training frontier models across tens of thousands of GPUs on multi-cloud environments where networking becomes a critical infrastructure hurdle.
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C
C++
RoCE
InfiniBand
RDMA
DPDK
DOCA
NCCL
CUDA
Networking Protocols
Distributed Systems
Firmware
Performance Tuning
Congestion Control
QoS
Telemetry
Automation
C
Linux Kernel
Networking Drivers
TCP/IP
L2/L3 Protocols
RDMA
RoCE
Data Structures
Algorithms
open-source
userspace libraries
Device Drivers
Kernel Internals