Solutions Architect - Higher Education and Research

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Are you an experienced systems architect with an interest in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) in academic and research environments? We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join the higher education and research team! In this role, you will work with universities and research institutions to optimize the design and deployment of AI infrastructure. Our team applies expertise in accelerated software and hardware systems to help enable groundbreaking advancements in AI, deep learning, and scientific research. This role requires a strong background in building and deploying research computing clusters, deploying AI and HPC workloads, and optimizing system performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate as a key technical advisor for the design, build-out, and optimization of university-level research computing infrastructures powering GPU-accelerated scientific workflows.
• Work with university research computing to optimize hardware utilization with software orchestration tools such as NVIDIA Base Command, Kubernetes, Slurm, and Jupyter notebook environments.
• Implement systems monitoring and management tools to help optimize resource utilization and gain insight into the most demanding application workloads at research computing centers.
• Document learnings through targeted training, whitepapers, blogs, and wiki articles, and collaborate with researchers on problem-solving.
• Collaborate with researchers to gather feature requests and product feedback for product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong experience in designing and deploying GPU-accelerated computing infrastructure.
• In-depth knowledge of cluster orchestration and job scheduling technologies, e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes, Ansible, and/or Open OnDemand.
• Experience with container tools (Docker, Singularity) including at-scale deployment of containerized environments.
• Expertise in systems monitoring, telemetry, and systems performance optimization of research computing environments. Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and NVIDIA DCGM.
• Understanding of datacenter networking technologies (InfiniBand, Ethernet, OFED) and experience with network configuration.
• Familiarity with power and cooling systems architecture for data center infrastructure.

Ways to Stand Out

• Background in deploying LLM training and inference workflows in a research computing environment.
• Experience deploying and evaluating cluster performance using benchmarks such as MLPerf and/or HPL.
• Experience in delivering technical training, workshops, or mentoring researchers on using HPC/AI systems.
• Applications and systems-level knowledge of OpenMPI and NCCL.
• Experience with debugging and profiling tools (e.g., Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, Compute Sanitizer, GDB, or Valgrind).

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary Range: $184,000 - $287,500 USD (base salary determined by location, experience, and pay equity).
• Eligible for equity and benefits.

Company Information

NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis. 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, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.