Senior Software Solution Engineer, Switch Networking

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative, passionate and self-motivated, we want to hear from you! We are looking for an experienced networking software engineer. An awesome candidate is highly technical who is also comfortable with dealing with enterprise customers. You will join a team of Solution Engineers focused on the Mellanox Networking, DGX Platforms, Container Orchestrators, Deep Learning containers, and other Enterprise related system software.

Solution Engineers spend approximately 50% of their time helping customers with their most complex problems and 50% of their time doing development related work. This individual should have proven grasp of datacenter and networking technologies, to provide comprehensive solutions for complex installations, maintenance, or operations for a broad scope of leading-edge networking products.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop features and tools as part of solution engineering efforts to support all Enterprise Service offerings including, but not limited to Networking/switching products.
• Work with NVIDIA Enterprise customers and internal users to improve the availability, reliability, and overall experience of working with NVIDIA Networking products.
• Take ownership and drive customer issues with Ethernet switch network deployments from inception to resolution.
• Bring independent analysis, communication, and problem-solving to customer experience.
• Collaborate with engineering to document, recreate and solve issues.

What we need to see:

• BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of system software development and troubleshooting experience, ideally with some customer facing.
• Experience developing with Python, C/C++ in Linux application space and/or embedded software.
• Expertise in Linux networking stack, tools, utilities and services.
• Proven ability to deeply analyze IPv4, IPv6, Layer 2 switching, TCP/IP and routing networking protocols (ARP, STP, LACP, MLAG, IGMP, PIM, BGP, OSPF).
• Intellectual curiosity, positive attitude, flexibility, analytical ability, self-motivation, and team-oriented.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience in solving problems in large-scale network environments with overlay technologies (BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN).
• Configuration and operational expertise with network switch/router platforms (i.e. IOS, JunOS, EOS).
• Experience with SRv6 technology, HPC, low-latency systems and performance tuning.
• Contributions to networking related open-source projects such as Free Range Routing (FRR) and/or Bird.
• Experience with AI coding tools, AI agents, etc.