Nvidia Forward Deployed Architect 

United States, Texas 

886617622

What you’ll be doing:

• Cross-Account Technical Guidance: Work across multiple strategic customer engagements to provide architectural direction, ensure alignment to business outcomes, and guide teams toward optimal technical approaches

• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to grasp customer goals, significance, and effective technical strategies.

• Implementation Oversight: Guide Forward Deployed Engineers and customer teams on complex technical decisions, system architectures, and implementation strategies to ensure successful outcomes

• Identify common technical challenges, use cases, and solution approaches across projects. Share findings with internal teams and the external community to improve AI implementation practices.

• Develop and advocate for standardized approaches, guidelines, and structured advice rooted in proven patterns from successful customer implementations

• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Dive into complex technical challenges hands-on keyboard when needed to solve critical problems, validate architectures, or demonstrate solutions

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and customer success teams to ensure findings from customer engagements inform internal strategy and capabilities

• Strategic Architecture: Design technical strategies for sophisticated AI workloads including distributed training, inference optimization, and complex MLOps pipelines that can be applied across multiple customers

What we need to see:

• 12+ years of experience in technical roles such as solutions architecture, ML engineering, technical product management, or technical consulting working across multiple customers or projects

• Strong technical leadership with proven ability to guide teams and influence technical decisions without direct authority

• Systems thinking with ability to understand customer business outcomes and translate them into effective technical approaches

• Ability and willingness to prototype and help implement solutions hands-on keyboard when needed to solve critical problems or validate approaches

• Exceptional communication skills with ability to engage technical teams, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders effectively

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• NVIDIA Stack: CUDA, NeMo, Triton, TensorRT, NIM as well as hands-on Technical Expertise (one or more of the following):

• AI/ML Systems: Distributed training, large-scale inference, model optimization, and pipeline automation

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GPU scheduling, distributed computing frameworks (SLURM, Ray), and multi-cloud environments

• Observability & Automation: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and GPU performance monitoring

• Solutions architecture or consulting background with experience working across multiple customer engagements simultaneously. Technical pattern recognition with demonstrated ability to identify common challenges and develop reusable approaches