Manager, Solutions Architecture - Emerging AI labs at NVIDIA Corporation
Santa Clara, CA
$224,000–$356,500from the description
Aug 9, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-manager role leading a geographically distributed team of solutions architects and systems/network engineers who design, deploy, and debug large-scale GPU and AI networking clusters at NVIDIA's most strategic AI-native customers and emerging AI labs. The manager is expected to remain hands-on — personally driving complex compute and network performance debugging, influencing product roadmap through customer feedback, and contributing to solution design alongside the team. Suits an experienced technical leader with deep GPU/networking infrastructure expertise and prior direct people-management experience.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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The role is primarily a people-management position (recruiting, mentoring, setting priorities for a distributed team) with a strong hands-on technical component, making 11-3021 the best fit; 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up given the deep infrastructure/networking operations emphasis.
The posting states 2+ years of people-management or strong tech-lead experience as a separate gate from the 8+ overall years; the 8-year figure is used as the overall years minimum since it is the broader role-level requirement.
Ethernet and InfiniBand are listed together as an 'and/or' requirement; Ethernet is captured as the primary skill with InfiniBand as an alternative, but InfiniBand is also listed separately as a preferred skill given its additional mention under 'Ways to stand out'.
A BS/MS/PhD is listed but 'equivalent experience' is explicitly accepted, so no minimum degree is hard-required.
Up to 20% travel is required for on-site customer visits and industry events.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): CPU/GPU server architecture.
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