Director, Retail and CPG Platform Architecture

NVIDIA – Director, Retail & CPG Industries Product Platform

We are seeking a dynamic, hands‑on Director to define and build the Retail & CPG Industries product platform in Santa Clara, CA. The role focuses on building a platform that reshapes digital commerce, supply chains, and intelligent stores, leveraging NVIDIA’s GPU‑accelerated technologies.

• Work with product management, business development, and developer relations to architect and build a platform that enables customers to build AI solutions at scale.
• Use NVIDIA’s Normatic microservices, NEMotron, and other involved stacks, focusing initially on Agentic AI for supply chain, digital commerce, and employee productivity.
• Collaborate with a strong technical retail and supply‑chain team and horizontal engineering teams to build effective developer experiences.
• Contribute to technical thought leadership and engagement with the industry.

• Develop platform strategy across supply chain, stores, and e‑commerce.
• Architect and build systems hands‑on using existing Retail and Agentic commerce blueprints, NVIDIA’s hyper‑personalization tools, and virtualization optimizations with AI‑based discovery and supply‑chain solvers.
• Create reusable reference architectures for industry adoption and define the product, technical vision, and architecture for the Retail & CPG platform.
• Use NVIDIA technologies such as NeMo, NIM, RAPIDS, and cuOpt to write code and create production‑ready platforms with a focus on latency, throughput, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure system reliability through monitoring, evaluation, and fallback strategies.
• Work together with solution engineers and developer‑relations engineers to present the platform to ISVs, GSIs, and customers.

• 15+ years of dynamic work experience within high‑growth tech companies or building AI and agentic solutions for major retailers.
• 7+ years of team‑management experience.
• Builder mentality with proven track record to write code and ship systems; experience as a developer of AI agents is required.
• Developer expertise in AI systems, including LLMs, RAG, and agent‑based systems.
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, embeddings, and systems architecture.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and microservices.
• Demonstrated success in lean, high‑velocity environments, collaborating with engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering (or equivalent); master’s degree strongly desirable.

• Familiarity with GPU acceleration libraries (CUDA, Triton, Tensor
  
  RT).
• Background in Retail, CPG, logistics, or marketplaces.
• Experience working with enterprise AI architectures.

Base salary ranges: USD
272,000–425,500 for Level5, USD
340,000–517,500 for Level
6. You will also be eligible for equity and additional benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate 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.