Senior Solutions Architect, First Time Deployment Validation

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
Santa Clara, CATXVAWA
Salary
$148,000–$235,750 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
21 days ago
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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 Solutions Architect, First Time Deployment Validation

The Senior Solutions Architect, First Time Deployment Validation - NVIS joins the team to drive validation of NVIDIA AI factories from first rack power-on through customer handoff. You will set up, adjust, and verify AI factory environments across multi-GPU and multi-node Linux clusters, ensuring configurations align with guidelines for NCCL and collectives like AllReduce and AllToAll. Responsibilities include executing AI/LLM benchmarks, investigating performance issues, and building observability tools for metrics, logs, and traces. You will develop automation using Python and Shell to accelerate validation and capture structured evidence. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, HPC, and frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow to solve complex scaling, throughput, and latency problems within large-scale AI infrastructure and GPU-accelerated environments.

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What you'll do

  • Set up, adjust, and verify AI factory environments across multi-GPU and multi-node Linux clusters.
  • Execute and analyze key AI/LLM benchmarks, including setup, orchestration, and result collection.
  • Investigate and resolve issues when training jobs or benchmarks fail, hang, or underperform.
  • Build and improve observability systems for metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards to monitor system health.
  • Develop Python and Shell automation for running benchmarks, collecting results, and performing regression checks.
  • Analyze NCCL communication patterns and collectives like AllReduce and AllToAll for AI/LLM workloads.
  • Recommend configuration changes to job parallelism and cluster settings to improve throughput and scaling efficiency.
  • Create documentation and readiness collateral to support internal collaborators and customer-facing teams.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
  • More than 6+ years of experience managing Linux-based systems in HPC, distributed systems, or extensive AI/ML settings.
  • Hands-on experience running AI/ML workloads on multi-GPU and/or multi-node clusters with practical knowledge of NCCL.
  • Solid grasp of collective communication patterns, particularly AllReduce and AllToAll, applied in contemporary ML/LLM training.
  • Familiarity with LLM training and/or inference workflows using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Proficiency with Python and Shell/Bash for scripting, automation, and tooling.
  • Experience with benchmarking, including crafting, executing, and interpreting performance benchmarks.
  • Experience with AI factory or large-scale AI infrastructure build, deployment, or operations (preferred).

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