Senior Software Development Tech Lead – NVLink FW and NVOS

NVLink Team – Senior Software Developer / Technical Lead

The NVIDIA NVLink team is seeking a Senior Software Developer or manager to serve as Tech Lead in our team in Santa Clara. The NVLink team develops the firmware and network OS (NVOS) for NVLink, NVIDIA’s networking fabric for our datacenter infrastructure.

• Spearhead the end‑to‑end development and implementation of features that ensure our customers can configure, install, and solve issues with NVLink, which powers NVIDIA’s datacenter fabric.
• Serve as the Point of Contact and own the SDLC for the programs, ensuring the highest quality of software deliveries.
• Define technical direction, breakdown, and be the quality bar for NVLink features, and drive them from idea to production as a hands‑on IC.
• Collaborate closely with product, test, applications engineering, production/manufacturing, and partner engineering teams to translate customer issues into concrete product solutions.
• Implement application flows that build on our networking fabric, helping the team to support our core CSP customer base.
• Establish guidelines for evaluation, observability, and continuous improvement of our networking infrastructure from manufacturing to production networks.
• Be an evangelist for AI adoption in software development, test and across the development lifecycle.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, EE, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Over 12 years of direct software development experience, including substantial responsibility for complex, customer‑facing systems or platforms.
• Proven track record as a technical lead, engineering manager or architect for significant features or products across networking and datacenter infra with clear ownership for both creating and execution of goals.
• Strong networking acumen, developing or leading the firmware and/or OS development of network infra.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical direction across teams while remaining as an individual contributor.
• Strong hands‑on development experience in embedded C/C++ and Python.

• Engineering Manager or Technical lead driving the successful development of end‑to‑end networking projects. Experience developing embedded, RTOS and SDK workflows, for networking infrastructure.
• Contributions to internal or open‑source networking frameworks/OS, tooling, or driving methodologies.
• Demonstrated history of mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering standards around building, code quality, and reliability.
• Proven track record of tech leading engineering from several different teams.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $224,000 USD – $356,500 USD for Level 5, and $272,000 USD – $431,250 USD for Level 6.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.