Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Infrastructure Security and Core Services - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$208,000 - $333,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves redesigning NVIDIA manufacturing sites' core services and enabling new sites, focusing on infrastructure security, compute services, and storage needs for manufacturing workloads.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture, design, and deployment of global-scale manufacturing sites and their connectivity to AI factories and offices.
- Architect and build CPU-based compute, storage, and GPU/HPC clusters.
- Design high-performance OT and IT networks for NVIDIA and Partner connectivities to support general compute workloads and GPU-dense AI/ML training and inference environments.
- Implement and refine compute, storage and security, telemetry, and performance-engineering practices across the infrastructure.
- Manage life cycle management for design infrastructures and revenue generating manufacturing sites.
- Define and enforce security, compliance, and reliability standards for all infrastructure components supporting mission critical manufacturing and R&D workloads.
What you'll need
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent experience.
- 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.
- Expert in networking technologies especially Mellanox, Compute technologies - Dell, Openshift, cloud compute services like Dell etc and Storage Services - Pure, Netapp.
- Experience designing compute and storage architectures for data centers, offices, Manufacturing environments and Labs.
- Experience building data lakes, caching layers and cloud based infrastructure services.
- Experience with designing Test Automation infrastructures in manufacturing and strong scripting skills.
- Experience designing both CPU and GPU workloads.
- Ability to troubleshoot DNS, DHCP, and other full connectivity stack infrastructures.
- Experience with Test Engineering topologies and supporting infrastructure on the factory floor.
Skills: Infrastructure Security, Contract Manufacturing infrastructure, GPU-accelerated OT and IT environments, manufacturing sites, compute, storage, routing, switching
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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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 (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 281 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6144 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 50 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Infrastructure Security, Contract Manufacturing infrastructure, GPU-accelerated OT and IT environments, manufacturing sites, compute, storage, routing, switching
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.