Principal Business System Analyst, Engineering Operations

NVIDIA is hiring a Principal Business System Analyst for Engineering Operations in Santa Clara to help scale how our teams plan, prioritize, and deliver enterprise platforms and AI initiatives. In this role, you'll partner with engineering leaders to transform strategic priorities into execution plans. You will improve operating practices and lead sophisticated programs from planning through launch and adoption.

• Lead operational planning across engineering teams, aligning roadmaps, capacity, and commitments with business priorities.
• Establish a consistent cadence for portfolio reviews, delivery tracking, risk management, and leadership updates.
• Drive cross-functional execution, resolve dependencies, and ensure clear ownership of achievements and outcomes.
• Improve intake and prioritization processes to make resource decisions and delivery tradeoffs clear.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to coordinate launch readiness, adoption, and ongoing improvements.
• Define metrics that connect engineering delivery to platform reliability, employee efficiency, and business value.
• Use automation and AI to improve operational workflows, reporting, and decision-making.
• Bring structure to ambiguous initiatives and surface decisions that require leadership alignment.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience with 15+ years experience.
• Significant experience leading engineering operations, technical programs, or complex enterprise technology portfolios.
• A track record of improving planning and execution across multiple engineering teams.
• Excellent judgment in prioritization, resource planning, dependency management, and navigating ambitious commitments.
• Ability to influence senior collaborators, build alignment, and drive accountability across interpersonal boundaries.
• Experience defining meaningful metrics and translating data into recommendations and decisions.
• Clear communication, including concise executive reporting and recommendations on risks and tradeoffs.
• Technical proficiency across enterprise platforms, software delivery, and AI-enabled experiences.

Join NVIDIA to build the operating practices that help engineering teams scale, deliver optimally, and turn ambitious ideas into measurable results.

Your base salary will be determined based based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.