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We are looking for a Software Engineer. You will work with highly experienced engineers to provide the world's outstanding SmartNIC products for cloud-computing, research, medical, automotive, finance, weather, telco, and more.
We also take significant part in the Linux-foundation DPDK (dpdk.org) project, and expand the NVIDIA-Mellanox PMD in particular, providing the framework and common API for fast packet processing in user space. Our goal is to enable breakthrough network performance, using NVIDIA SmartNIC hardware capabilities and address the performance, scale and security demands of modern software-defined enterprise data centers and public cloud infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

You will architect, design, and develop the next-generation technology in network acceleration, as well as work with best-in-class technical leaders in this domain.

Engage with customers and architects to understand the requirements and derive the software design accordingly.

Collaborate with other engineering teams that develop the upper layers applications like virtual switches (OVS, VPP, and etc.) and lower layers like driver, kernel, FW, and HW.

We are looking for an outstanding engineer to join our software architecture group and help shape the next generation of our networking products, SmartNICs, and DPUs. In this role, you will work closely with system architects, software/firmware engineers, hardware designers and product stakeholders to define component-level and system-level solutions for advanced datacenter platforms.

You will join a team working at the intersection of AI networking, virtualization, operating systems, security, management, and programmable acceleration. Our mission is to push the boundaries of modern datacenter infrastructure and help define the platforms of tomorrow.

What Youll Be Doing:

Work with architects and engineers to define software architecture for our networking devices, SmartNICs, and DPUs.

Analyze system requirements across networking protocols, virtualization, operating systems, security, management, and services.

Research new ideas, evaluate design alternatives, and build proof-of-concept models, simulations, and prototypes.

Collaborate with software, firmware, and hardware teams on HW/SW co-design, performance, scale, and resource-utilization challenges.

Learn complex datacenter technologies and turn them into clear architecture proposals, design documents, and technical presentations.

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Networking Software Architect to join the NIC/DPU Software and Firmware Architecture group. In this role, you will help define the next generation of our datacenter and AI networking platforms, with focus on DPU management, QoS, performance, telemetry, and software architecture across stacks. You will work closely with hardware designers, firmware/kernel driver teams, system engineers, validation, product management and customers. The role spans early architecture definition, pre-silicon design, bring-up, and production readiness for large-scale AI and cloud datacenter deployments.

What Youll Be Doing:

Own software and system architecture for next-generation DPU management, QoS, performance, telemetry, and observability features.

Define end-to-end control and management flows across DOCA, host drivers, embedded firmware, BMC, management controllers and external management systems.

Specify telemetry and observability requirements, including counters, logs, traces, events, health monitoring, debug data, and streaming telemetry.

Define management interfaces and APIs for configuration, provisioning, lifecycle operations, diagnostics, and field serviceability.

Write clear architecture specifications, interface definitions, flow diagrams, and design documents for software, firmware, and system teams.

Partner with R&D teams to translate high-level architecture into implementable designs and guide features through development, validation, silicon bring-up, and production.

Analyze system performance bottlenecks, interoperability issues, telemetry gaps, and customer-reported issues, then feed learnings into future architecture.

Collaborate with system and cluster architects to ensure NIC/DPU features fit end-to-end AI datacenter and cloud networking designs.

We are looking for an excellent Drivers Team leader to lead the Inbox Linux Drivers team and make a wide impact on the company products and teams worldwide. The role includes leading the development and maintenance of cutting-edge Linux kernel drivers and userspace libraries for our networking technologies, while managing a team of highly skilled Linux engineers responsible for delivering production-quality software across multiple products and distributions.

What youll be doing:

Lead a team of Linux kernel engineers responsible for developing, maintaining, and delivering Linux networking drivers for our NICs across multiple product lines, including Inbox drivers, our Kernel, and DOCA Host.

Drive the design, implementation, maintenance, and integration of Linux kernel drivers and accompanying userspace libraries for state-of-the-art Ethernet and RDMA networking technologies.

Own the teams technical execution, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery while mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence.

Collaborate closely with architecture, firmware, hardware, validation, DevOps, product, and customer-facing teams across the globe to deliver robust and scalable networking solutions.

Lead complex debugging and performance investigations across the Linux networking stack, working with both internal stakeholders and open-source communities.

Ensure high software quality through strong engineering practices, code reviews, automation, and continuous integration.

Be part of an experienced organization with a collaborative culture, solving challenging problems that power next-generation AI, cloud, and high-performance computing infrastructure.

Our Networking BU group is seeking to hire an expert Firmware Design Engineer for the Ethernet Switch Firmware Core team. The next generation of Switches are a crucial component of the most innovative AI and Cloud Computing Networks in the world. As a member of the Ethernet Firmware Team, you will craft and develop the firmware abstraction layer in the ETH Switch. This role will require you to participate in the design & development of firmware while working closely with hardware and architecture team to ensure timely delivery of our products to the market.

What you'll be doing:

Highly involved in the entire software development process from architecture to integration testing of firmware for the Spectrum ASIC product line.

Work with HW & ASIC team to provide insights into developing the next gen of the groundbreaking of silicon and systems.

Design and implement algorithms to improve system scale and performance.

Work with higher layer software teams to debug issues reported by customers (internal and external).

Design, implement and integrate new features according to the product roadmap.

Have a new insight on how to improve our software? Why not! Bring your ideas to life by innovating during our hackathons

Collaborate with other R&D teams around the globe.

We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Simulation development team. Our team is growing, and we are looking for hardworking and experienced engineers to take part in building advanced networking simulation solutions. You will be part of a team developing next generation NIC and Switch simulation, works closely with other SW R&D teams and SW Architects.

What you will be doing:

Design and develop advanced features simulating our world class Switches.

Develop solutions using advanced virtualization technology.

Write clean, efficient and maintainable code.

Collaborate with team members, SW R&D, Architects, Chip Design and FW.

Are you ready to make a significant impact by tackling SW verification challenges? We are seeking an exceptional candidate to work with world-class technologies in the domains of High-Speed Communication and Virtualization for our most advanced markets and customers. Our products encompass Ethernet and InfiniBand protocols, delivering a wide range of cutting-edge networking, storage, and security services for cloud, complex compute, and AI workloads. As a Software Verification Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring on-time and high-quality releases.

What youll be doing:

Take an active part in development, integration, and verification with R&D.

Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts using Python.

Identify, analyze, and report software defects, inconsistencies, and other quality issues.

Drive design verification flows and methodologies improvements.

Perform functional, integration, and regression of software applications and networking protocols.

Work with planning and tracking systems to manage the release progress and build release indicators.

Participate in code reviews, provide feedback, and suggest improvements to enhance the quality and maintainability of the software.

Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of test processes and methodologies, recommending improvements as necessary.

Stay up to date with industry best practices, new technologies, and emerging trends in software verification and QA.

Make better product quality by improving test coverage.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the SDK Verification team. The DOCA SDK enables developers to rapidly create applications and services on top of our data processing units (DPUs), leveraging industry-standard APIs. With DOCA, developers can deliver breakthrough networking, security, and storage performance by harnessing the power of our DPUs.

What you will be doing:
As a Senior Software Engineer in the DOCA verification team, you will play a key role in designing and developing the verification infrastructure for the DOCA SDK. This infrastructure is a complex system that executes thousands of tests every night across multiple hardware platforms and configurations. It includes mechanisms for error handling and fault recovery, while test results are stored, analyzed using advanced tools, and presented through live dashboards and reports. Your expertise in building robust and efficient verification systems will be critical to ensuring the reliability and quality of our software.

The Networking Advanced Development Software team develops new groundbreaking technologies to enable new market shares for the company and tighten customer relationships. These are emerging technologies in networking and distributed computing for the booming AI factories and data centers. They span areas such as AI neural networks, Deep Learning, High Performance Computing (HPC), Storage, Cloud, SW Defined Network, Network Function Virtualization, 5G NR and more. We develop the solutions top-down, all the way from application behavioral analysis, to architecture definition and down to the implementation, using the world-leading our devices. The development traverses any needed component - application SW, middleware SW, OS kernel subsystems, device drivers, embedded SW (Firmware) and CUDA GPU. We collaborate with partners and key customers in the analysis processes and engage with open source communities introducing our leading features.

What youll be doing:

Lead a team of 5 engineers in the advanced technologies development.

Design and implement solutions throughout all layers from high level application, OS and driver subsystem to firmware.

Work on impactful projects involving state-of-the-art high-performance computing hardware and software.

Provide insight and technical guidance and collaborate with peers from across the company - including software architecture, chip architecture, and engineering departments to improve our future technology.

Collaborate with our partners and customers.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Performance Engineer to join our Performance and R&D organizations. In this role, you will help build and evolve systems that support performance analysis, telemetry, and optimization for large-scale GPU- and CPU-based clusters used in AI and high-performance computing environments. You will work closely with hardware, networking, firmware, and software teams to collect, analyze, and interpret performance data from live systems. This is a fast-paced R&D environment where system behavior and requirements evolve rapidly, requiring adaptable engineering solutions and strong analytical thinking.

What youll be doing:

Profile, benchmark, and analyze AI and HPC workloads on GPU and CPU clusters.

Explore performance characteristics of high-performance networking and collective communications (e.g., NCCL, RDMA, MPI, RoCE).

Identify performance bottlenecks across networking, compute, memory, and system architecture.

Develop and enhance performance analysis, benchmarking, and diagnostic tools.

Define performance test plans and establish expectations for new technologies and platforms.

Collaborate across hardware, firmware, networking, systems, and software teams to provide actionable performance insights.

Support telemetry collection and data refinement efforts to enable accurate performance analysis.

Maintain high standards for data quality, reproducibility, and traceability of performance results.