Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Connectivity - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$208,000 - $333,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves redesigning the NVIDIA manufacturing sites connectivity strategy and focuses on the development and deployment of IT rooms at these sites.
What you'll do
- Troubleshoot network issues at the factory, including DNS and DHCP.
- Lead the architecture, design, and deployment of global-scale factories and their connection to the cloud and factory IT rooms, supporting general compute workloads and large language models.
- Partner with systems, operations teams, supply chain partners, OS, GPU, storage, and HPC product teams to deliver scalable, highly available network architectures and connectivity solutions.
- Design clear demarcations between the IT room, production floor, and NPI areas in the factory and their connectivity to NVIDIA DCs and clouds.
- Manage lifecycle management and design topologies for faster networks in revenue-generating manufacturing sites.
- Define and enforce security, compliance, and reliability standards for backbone and fabric components supporting sensitive enterprise and R&D workloads.
- Collaborate with internal product and engineering teams to develop "NVIDIA on NVIDIA" reference architectures and best-practice solutions for large-scale compute and AI data designs using Mellanox and GPUs.
- Troubleshoot DNS, DHCP, and other full connectivity stack infrastructures.
What you'll need
- MS or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Mathematics, or Statistics.
- 12+ years of experience in building, managing, and supporting large-scale hybrid networks.
- Experience developing automation pipelines with Python, Ruby, Go, or other languages used in infrastructure automation.
- Expertise in networking technologies: TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP/MP-BGP, VPN, L2 switching, EVPN, VxLAN, Segment Routing, MPLS, IS-IS, DWDM.
- Experience automating SDN/NFV/NFVI Infrastructure.
- Experience with Mellanox networking gear.
- Experience with Test Engineering topologies.
Skills: network architecture, connectivity engineering, TCP/UDP, BGP, SDN
This role has been open 8 days — well below the 55-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Networking Software
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Open roles in category
39
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$259k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (39 roles · 9 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 25 | 39 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 966 | 6078 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 44 d | 55 d (−11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $259k |
Skills observed across this category: network architecture, connectivity engineering, TCP/UDP, BGP, SDN
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 25 open roles · median 44 d
- AMD · 3 open roles · median 22 d
- Eridu AI · 3 open roles · median 127 d
- Arm Holdings · 2 open roles · median 183 d
- Upscale AI · 2 open roles · median 74 d
- Broadcom · 1 open role · median 17 d
How we counted: 39 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Networking Software) roles from 9 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.