Distinguished Engineer, Production Engineering, Cluster Management

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader in the Production Engineering organization. The person will be passionate about leading cluster activities within DGX Cloud GPU capacity. Production Engineering at NVIDIA is tasked with ensuring large-scale production systems remain reliable, manageable, and progressively automated across DGX Cloud resources. Our method combines software engineering, systems engineering, and production expertise. This allows us to develop platforms, workflows, and operating models that preserve GPU infrastructure health, scalability, and availability for researchers and customers. This position focuses on the operational structure for DGX Cloud clusters across on-prem, hyperscalers, and NVIDIA Cloud Partner environments. The scope includes the engineering connections needed to ensure DGX Cloud capacity is fully functional in production: Kubernetes service management, provider and hardware readiness, on-prem infrastructure handling, deployment and operational preparedness, service reliability collaborations, and the processes that integrate these areas into a unified production system. This is a hands-on Distinguished Engineer role for a deeply technical leader who will define architectural direction for cluster operations throughout DGX Cloud. The right person will combine software engineering rigor, systems depth, and production judgment. They will set technical strategy and establish operating standards. They will guide the framework’s evolution for production operations. They will drive progress on cross-organizational capabilities to keep DGX Cloud capacity usable, supportable, and improving at scale. This role requires both the ability to go deep in building and implementation and the ability to lead through influence across multiple teams and high-consequence production outcomes.

Define the long-range technical strategy for operating DGX Cloud clusters consistently across local data centers, hyperscalers, and NeoCloud environments Define the architectural direction and fundamental operating standards for cluster lifecycle, runtime delivery, restoration, release readiness, and steady-state operability concerning DGX Cloud capacity Guide the roadmap and execution of critical cross-organizational investments that improve production readiness, operational safety, performance, and cross-team coordination Make and influence high-impact technical decisions that build how platform, hardware, provider, and service teams work together to operate DGX Cloud resources in production Build durable workflows, interfaces, and engineering handshakes across Kubernetes production service, provider and hardware preparation, on-prem and bare-metal Restructure operations, and service-layer reliability domains Build and evolve the automation, APIs, operating workflows, and readiness gates required to move new capacity into stable production and keep existing capacity balanced Implement production operating approaches that lower manual input, establish clear ownership responsibilities, and increase consistency, traceability, and release safety within DGX Cloud environments Partner closely with platform teams, hardware and provider engineering, service owners, and other Production Engineering leaders to identify repeated friction and convert it into durable improvements in software, processes, and operational interfaces Raise the engineering bar for operability, resilience, scalability, and performance across cluster operations through build leadership, architecture review, and technical standards What we need to see: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience 18+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, or production environments Confirmed company-level technical leadership at principal, distinguished, or equivalent scope