Senior Solutions Architect, Data Center Buildouts - NPN

NVIDIA Corp

Durham, NC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Auditing, Benchmarking, Calendar Management, Channel Sales, Commissioning, Communication Skills, Construction, Continuous Improvement, Cost Effectiveness Analysis, Customer Support/Service, Distribution Operations, Documentation, Embedded Systems, Functional Testing, Industry Standards, Knowledge Transfer, Mentoring, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Cable, Network Monitoring, Network Operations Center, Operational Audit, Partner Sales, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Process Capability, Product Engineering, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance Methodology, Regulatory Requirements, Safety Process, Security Protocols, System Operations, Team Building, Team Player, Testing, Time Management, Willing to Travel
LOCATION
Durham, NC
POSTED
30+ days ago

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 support customers and partners in the areas of planning, development, construction, and deployment of large-scale AI factories. You will join the team building capabilities to develop, construct, and deliver large-scale AI factories based on NVIDIA's reference designs. This includes architectural systems, power distribution, cooling systems, integration of telemetry and control systems, and all other physical infrastructure. Acting as a trusted advisor embedded with customer and partner teams, you will bridge solution development, implementation enablement, and post-deployment optimization to accelerate AI factory adoption!

What you will be doing:

  • Data Center deployment planning: Collaborate with NVIDIA product, engineering and partners teams to understand NVIDIA's reference architecture for data center infrastructure including power distribution, cooling systems, controls and monitoring, and network/cabling architecture. Support customers and partners in quickly implementing this architecture into sophisticated and reliable data center builds.

  • Building process capabilities: Collaborate across the org to build processes, partner relationships and workflows to deliver and deploy large AI factories at speed of light (SOL).

  • Build and construction oversight: Review and appraise customers' and partners' infrastructure build plans, verifying their compliance with NVIDIA reference architecture, industry standards, and regulatory requirements. Delivering mentorship, expertise and suggestions to optimize performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

  • Review the operational efficiency, reliability, and readiness of data center infrastructure elements before initiating AI/HPC cluster deployments. Design and apply detailed audit plans and conduct pre-deployment audits to detect possible problems, risks, and improvement areas.

  • Quality Assurance: Implement and make quality assurance processes to ensure that deployments meet established specifications and performance benchmarks. Conduct detailed bring-up, testing, and commissioning to validate the functionality and reliability of infrastructure components.

  • Continuous Improvement: Develop partner-facing playbooks, deployment guides, and guideline documentation specific to AI factory implementations using NVIDIA reference builds.

  • Technical Enablement and Knowledge Transfer: Provide hands-on mentorship to partners on deploying NVIDIA AI factory; conduct workshops and develop runbooks to build partners expertise.

  • Internal Liaison & Feedback Loop: Serve as the representative of the customer/partner within NVIDIA, conveying field insights, deployment challenges, and optimization opportunities to NVIDIA internal and product engineering teams to support the seamless integration of data center infrastructure solutions.

What we need to see:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, or a related field. Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree or equivalent experience, relevant certifications, or comparable experience.

  • We need an expert professional with a background in multiple aspects of infrastructure delivery, preferably of hyperscale data centers. The ideal candidate will have at least 8+ years of experience, preferably in high-density AI/HPC data centers.

  • Proven technical expertise in data center systems and operations-power distribution, liquid cooling, rack/server chassis, and cabling.

  • Effective communication at both on-the-ground implementation as well as executive levels, internally and with customers and partners.

  • Coordination & Time Management - proficient at planning and scheduling tasks related to the job to accomplish objectives within or ahead of designated time frames.

  • Able to travel (25%).

Way to Stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience in hyperscale data center rollout, operational procedures, safety, and security protocols.

  • Strong grasp of the entire data center Infrastructure stack.

  • Strong channel sales and services knowledge and partner co-selling experience

  • Ability to learn quickly and tackle sophisticated problems.

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 teamwork. 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.

About the Company

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NVIDIA Corp

Visualize your future . . . We Do
NVIDIA is the world leader in graphics processing technologies, creating innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. NVIDIA products are transforming visually-rich applications such as video games, film production, broadcasting, industrial design, space exploration, and medical imaging. We invest in our people and our technologies, support and fund industry research around the world, and consistently deliver high-quality products. NVIDIA's culture promotes and inspires a team of world-class employees to be at the top of their game. We've created an environment where talents are recognized and collaboration is valued. Our employees are shaping the world of tomorrow. . . today. We invite you to explore the opportunities available at NVIDIA to see what your future may hold.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
FOUNDED
1993
WEBSITE
http://www.nvidia.com