Senior System Architect, Infrastructure Reliability

Nvidia

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TL;DR · Senior System Architect, Infrastructure Reliability

JOB TITLE: Senior System Architect, Infrastructure Reliability NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Architect to join the team focused on solving failure attribution at scale for heterogeneous EDA systems. The role involves architecting and building an automated framework to ingest telemetry from CPU and GPU clusters to identify root causes of job failures in real-time. You will build a scalable flight recorder for EDA jobs, develop automated diagnostics for GPU XID errors and PCIe bus failures, and implement low-overhead tracing across Slurm or Kubernetes clusters. Key responsibilities include developing machine learning models to classify hardware faults and software bugs. Required skills include C++, Python, and expertise in x86/ARM metrics, Linux kernel diagnostics, and NVIDIA DCGM or NVML. You will address the problem of resource waste caused by infrastructure instability.

What you'll do

  • Architect a scalable "flight recorder" framework to capture high-fidelity state across CPU, GPU, and Fabric during job failures.
  • Build automated diagnostics to correlate GPU XID errors, PCIe bus failures, and CUDA memory exceptions with system-level events.
  • Implement low-overhead tracing mechanisms to provide job execution visibility across multi-node Slurm or Kubernetes clusters.
  • Develop machine learning models and heuristics to automatically classify failures as hardware, software, or environment issues.
  • Define "signals of impending failure" with hardware teams to enable proactive job migration or checkpointing.
  • Build high-performance daemons in C++ and Python to monitor system health without impacting workload performance.
  • Utilize DCGM and NVML to monitor device health and capture state-dumps for GPU infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience) with 6+ years in systems programming.
  • Experience building automated RCA pipelines for HPC or cloud-scale environments.
  • Expert knowledge of x86/ARM node-level metrics including IPC, cache contention, NUMA imbalance, and hardware interrupts.
  • Strong C++ and Python skills to build high-performance daemons for monitoring system health.
  • Familiarity with cluster resource managers such as Slurm, LSF, or Kubernetes.
  • Expert knowledge of the Linux kernel and its error-reporting interfaces (preferred).
  • Deep experience with NVIDIA DCGM and NVML for monitoring device health (preferred).
  • Experience with checkpoint/restore technologies like CRIU (preferred).

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