NVIDIA is looking for a brilliant senior Software & Systems Architect to join the NIC Software/Firmware Architecture group. Be part of a team of outstanding people, whose mission is to craft the upcoming datacenter DPU generation. Collaborate with hardware and software architects, R&D teams, and external customers. Take ownership of end-to-end system design across NICs, switches, accelerators, and GPU devices and focus on defining and reviewing system-level flows, ensuring they meet performance, reliability, and manageability requirements. 

What You’ll Be Doing: 

• Define, analyse and review system-level architecture and data/control flows connecting NICs, switches, accelerators, and GPUs and their dependencies. 

• Design and review QoS policies and traffic management schemes to meet latency, bandwidth, and isolation requirements. 

• Define and review system management flows, including configuration, provisioning, and lifecycle operations. 

• Specify telemetry, observability, and monitoring requirements end-to-end (NIC–switch–accelerator–GPU). 

• Conduct and lead architecture and design reviews with R&D teams, ensuring alignment with system requirements and constraints and maintain high-level system diagrams, interface definitions, and design documents. 

• Work closely with customers, product management, and field teams to understand use cases and translate them into system-level requirements and serve as the primary point of contact for system level questions raised by customers, architects, and R&D teams. 

• Support investigations of complex system issues, performance bottlenecks, and interoperability problems. 

What We Need to See: 

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience. 

• 6+ years of shown experience in the field. 

• Deep understanding of networking concepts and protocols (L2/L3/L4, routing/switching, QoS, congestion-control). 

• Experience with high-performance systems involving NICs, switches, accelerators, and/or GPUs. 

• Proven experience in system-level architecture, data-flow design, or large-scale system integration. 

• Familiarity with configuration and management protocols and frameworks, e.g., Netconf/REST, gNMI, SNMP, gRPC-based APIs, or similar. 

• Experience defining or consuming telemetry/observability systems (counters, traces, logs, streaming telemetry). 

• Strong ability to create clear architecture documents and diagrams and to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Excellent collaboration skills and experience working cross-functionally with architecture, R&D, and customer-facing teams. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on attitude for resolving complex system issues. 

Ways to stand out from the crowd: 

• Experience with datacenter, AI/ML, and/or HPC network architectures. 

• Background with RDMA, RoCE, NVMe-oF, or similar high-performance I/O technologies. 

• Customer-facing experience in architecture, solution engineering, or technical pre/post-sales roles. 

With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most brilliant and talented people in the world working for us and, due to extraordinary growth, our elite engineering teams are growing fast. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a sincere real passion for technology, we want to hear from you. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.