Senior High-Performance Storage Architect - NVIS

Overview

• NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years.
• It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people.
• Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing.
• An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world.
• Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent.
• As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work.
• Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.
• NVIDIA is seeking a Senior High-Performance Storage Architect to join our Infrastructure Specialists team in Santa Clara, CA.
• Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, contributing to the development of the largest and fastest AI Factories in the world.
• This role offers an outstanding opportunity to work with modern technologies and interact with academic, commercial, and government groups globally.
• You'll be part of a dynamic, customer-focused team that thrives on flawless execution and remarkable collaboration! What you'll be doing: Deploying, managing, and validating High-Performance Storage infrastructure within AI Factory Linux-based environments.
• Acting as the domain expert during customer planning calls through implementation phases.
• Crafting and handing over documentation and performing knowledge transfers to support customers.
• Providing feedback to internal teams by opening bugs, documenting workarounds, and suggesting improvements.
• What we need to see: 8+ years of experience providing in-depth support, deployment, and validation services for hardware and software-based storage products.
• Solid understanding and experience with storage concepts and technologies, including SDS, NFS, S3, NVMeoF, Lustre, GPFS, and RMDA (RoCEv2/InfiniBand).
• Familiarity with storage benchmarking tools such as FIO, IO500, IOR, HPL, NCCL tests, and MLPerf storage.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration, performance reporting/optimization/logging, and network-routing/advanced networking (tuning and monitoring).
• A four-year degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, Ansible, etc.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to deliver resolutions for customer issues as they arise.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multi-task with limited supervision.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites within the region up to 20% of the time.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Experience with parallel and distributed filesystem products (Ceph, Weka.io, Vast, DDN, etc.).
• Expertise in optimizing storage performance for AI training, checkpointing, inference, or large-scale data pipelines.
• Proven foundation in networking: Spectrum-X Ethernet, InfiniBand, NVLink Switch fabrics, congestion control, and datacenter topologies.