Senior High-Performance Storage Architect - NVIS - United States
$148,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 27 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on developing the largest and fastest AI Factories in the world.
About the role
This role involves senior-level architecture of high-performance storage in AI Factory Linux-based environments.
What you'll do
- Deploy, manage, and validate High-Performance Storage infrastructure within AI Factory Linux-based environments.
- Act as the domain expert during customer planning calls through implementation phases.
- Craft and hand over documentation and perform knowledge transfers to support customers.
- Provide feedback to internal teams by opening bugs, documenting workarounds, and suggesting improvements.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience providing in-depth support, deployment, and validation services for hardware and software-based storage products.
- Solid understanding and experience with storage concepts and technologies, including SDS, NFS, S3, NVMeoF, Lustre, GPFS, and RMDA (RoCEv2/InfiniBand).
- Familiarity with storage benchmarking tools such as FIO, IO500, IOR, HPL, NCCL tests, and MLPerf storage.
- Proficiency in Linux system administration, performance reporting/optimization/logging, and network-routing/advanced networking (tuning and monitoring).
- A four-year degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, Ansible.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites within the region up to 20% of the time.
Skills: High-Performance Storage, AI Factories, Linux-based environments, SDS, NFS, S3, NVMeoF, Lustre, storage performance
This role has been open 51 days — exactly the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Storage Systems
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Open roles in category
31
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$235k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (31 roles · 12 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 20 | 31 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 971 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 51 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: High-Performance Storage, AI Factories, Linux-based environments, SDS, NFS, S3, NVMeoF, Lustre, storage performance
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 20 open roles · median 50 d
- Broadcom · 1 open role · median 150 d
- Graphcore · 1 open role · median 10 d
- KIOXIA America · 1 open role · median 4 d
- KLA Corporation · 1 open role · median 183 d
- Marvell Technology · 1 open role · median 14 d
How we counted: 31 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Storage Systems) roles from 12 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.