Director, Optics Strategy and Partnerships - CA, Santa Clara, United States

Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer — open 4 days.

Influence the optics roadmap for scale-out and scale-up networking at NVIDIA.

About the role

This role involves developing and building the optics roadmap for scale-out and scale-up networking within the networking product marketing team. You will lead the optics product and technology roadmap process across all data center and networking platforms.

What you'll do

• Lead the optics product and technology roadmap process for data center and networking platforms.
• Engage with customers and developers to understand use cases, difficulties, and requirements.
• Provide input and guidance to architecture and development teams for optics and interconnects across switches, NICs, and compute platforms.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations, and partner relationships aligned with the strategic technology roadmap.
• Produce informative technical content, including blogs, white papers, webinars, and tutorials, on optics and interconnect platforms.
• Drive technology advancements and collaborations to support the roadmap.

What you'll need

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Applied Sciences, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ overall years of relevant industry experience, with 10 or more years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience and understanding of optical interconnects, silicon photonics, lasers, or closely related technologies, within high-performance data center settings.
• Practical knowledge of Networking (switching & routing for Ethernet/Infiniband and/or compute fabrics), and Data Center infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience and skills in building partnerships, managing business contracts, statements of work, and investment justifications.

Skills: optics roadmap, optical interconnects, silicon photonics, product management, data center