Senior Solutions Architect, Higher Education and Research, AI and HPC - United States
Originally posted 2 September 2026 by the employer.
Work with NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, and networking to drive research projects at supercomputing scale.
About the role
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will work with academia and research partners to drive the adoption of NVIDIA technology by engaging deeply with researchers and application developers.
What you'll do
- Partner with research labs, researchers, and university faculty as a technical advisor to understand scientific goals and drive joint research projects.
- Deliver hands-on trainings, workshops, lectures, and demonstrations across NVIDIA's platforms, and mentor power users.
- Track emerging research trends and provide feedback to NVIDIA Engineering to develop prototypical solutions.
- Maintain expertise in your domain while staying versatile across NVIDIA's full platform: GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software.
What you'll need
- A graduate degree in a STEM related discipline or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in the intersection of HPC and AI, running scientific workloads at scale on multi-node GPU systems and applying machine learning.
- Fluent in English, both oral and written, and comfortable working in Python.
Skills: Solutions Architect, HPC, AI, accelerated computing, customer engagement
This role has been open 45 days — exactly the 45-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
102
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Median days open
45 d
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Median salary
$236k
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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 (102 roles · 19 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 102 |
| Median days open | 45 d | 45 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: Solutions Architect, HPC, AI, accelerated computing, customer engagement
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 59 open roles · median 45 d
- AMD · 11 open roles · median 59 d
- Tenstorrent · 9 open roles · median 30 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 50 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 3 open roles · median 38 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 102 open Applications FAE (AI ML Hardware) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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. Figures refresh nightly.