Senior Manager, Compute Core Engineering - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$248,000 - $391,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 August 2026 by the employer.
Lead and expand a group responsible for NVIDIA's global Compute Core Engineering Team.
About the role
This role leads NVIDIA's Compute Core Engineering team, defining strategy and roadmap for infrastructure services across data centers, cloud environments, and compute platforms.
What you'll do
- Lead and expand NVIDIA's global Compute Core Engineering Team.
- Define strategy and roadmap for infrastructure services.
- Drive transformation of traditional services into automated, self-service platforms.
- Provide technical leadership for globally distributed services including DNS, DHCP, NTP/PTP, LDAP, and Linux infrastructure.
- Establish engineering standards for performance, capacity, scalability, security, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery.
- Partner with senior engineers to introduce technologies that improve infrastructure performance and resiliency.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
- 12+ overall years of experience in related fields, including significant technical leadership experience.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience.
- Demonstrated experience crafting and managing critically important infrastructure.
- Solid grasp of distributed systems architecture.
- Solid knowledge of networking technologies and protocols.
- Deep experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience with container platforms and technologies.
- Solid experience in infrastructure automation and GitOps approaches.
- Software engineering experience with Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience using SLIs, SLOs, and performance metrics.
- Experience in capacity forecasting and lifecycle oversight.
- Demonstrated capability to guide intricate modernization projects.
Skills: infrastructure services, data centers, cloud environments, compute platforms, Linux operating systems, Go, Python, Terraform, GitOps
This role has been open 44 days — 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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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 289 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1008 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 50 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: infrastructure services, data centers, cloud environments, compute platforms, Linux operating systems, Go, Python, Terraform, GitOps
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.