networking software engineer

About

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 to join a team of Solution Engineers focused on Mellanox Networking, DGX Platforms, Container Orchestrators, Deep Learning containers, and other enterprise‑related system software.

The 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 a 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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years system software development and troubleshooting experience, ideally with some customer‑facing responsibilities.
• Experience developing with C and C++ in Linux kernel, network drivers and/or embedded software.
• Very good familiarity with Linux OS (tools, utilities, kernel functionality).
• Very good familiarity with networking protocols (Ethernet, IP‑based, L2/3/4 protocols).
• Intellectual curiosity, positive attitude, flexibility, analytical ability, self‑motivation, and team‑oriented mindset.
• Professional‑level communication and interpersonal skills with a passion for solving problems.

Preferred Qualifications (Ways to stand out)

• Experience solving problems in large‑scale network environments with overlay technologies (BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN).
• Experience in server‑related areas such as virtualization, storage, hardware offloads, network acceleration libraries, performance, etc.
• Familiarity with InfiniBand networks and/or RDMA protocol.
• Contributions to networking‑related open‑source projects.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with brilliant and talented people in a fast‑growing, world‑class engineering environment.