Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking – NPN

Want to join a team that's revolutionizing the field of AI with data center scale solutions? We are seeking a highly technical Solution Architect to serve as a forward-deployed technical liaison between NVIDIA’s Partner Network (NPN), NVIDIA’s internal teams, and enterprise customers. In this role, your focus will be to provide deep hands-on networking expertise with solution build, automation, and customer-facing consulting to deploy large-scale AI factories. As Solution Architects on the NVIDIA Partner Network team, we are actively helping NVIDIA AI Factory solutions bring the benefits of large scale AI to customers through our partners. We work closely with partners to address unsolved problems in the industry and help to deploy and operationalize AI solutions at scale! What you will be doing: Providing Ethernet and routing expertise to customers during project delivery to design, architect and test Ethernet networking solutions Working on multi-functional teams to provide Ethernet network expertise to server infrastructure builds, accelerated computing workloads and GPU enabled AI applications Crafting and evaluating DevOps automation scripts for network operations, crafting architectures, and developing switch fabric configurations. Implementing tasks related to network configuration and validation for data centers. Creating Methods of Procedure and deployment documents Interacting with customers to obtain required information to design and build an optimal solution. Validating network architectures and configs in the lab Use software tools to validate and monitor network performance What we need to see: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree with 8+ years of proficiency in networking, data center architecture, and relevant certifications. Strong Switching and Routing hands-on experience including BGP, VxLAN and EVPN Network fixing using a Sniffer (8+ years) Strong Linux administration expertise with understanding of system-level issues, kernel drivers, PCIe devices, and computer hardware architecture (8+ years) Engages with clients for network requirement analysis, builds next-gen data center network architectures, and validates functionality through simulations. Extensive experience in consulting or/and technical support(6+ years) Background in datacenter engineering, CLOS networking architecture, or cloud applications is advantageous (4+ years) Plays a pivotal role in automation, delivering fully automated network provisioning solutions using Ansible, Salt, and Python. (3+ years) Strong abilities with technical presentations, providing partners training. Able to travel (25%) as well as work non-standard working hours like during nights and weekends when needed Ways to Stand out from the crowd: Experience with Kubernetes and Docker Familiarity with networking digital simulations, experience with NVIDIA Air, GNS3, EVE-NG Experience with network and server management tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc. Personal Git repository with examples of coding expertise in Python Experience with AI tools to boost work quality and meet project timelines Strong channel sales and services knowledge and partner co-selling experience This role embodies the forward-deployed engineer approach: you will spend significant time embedded with customer and partner technical teams. You will move fluidly between field deployments and internal NVIDIA collaboration. Your success is measured by the successful deployment and optimization of AI factories that enable customers and partners to achieve their AI ambitions. You will also provide critical feedback to refine NVIDIA’s reference architectures and partner enablement programs! Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits . Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.