AI Architect Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

We’re hiring a Senior Solutions Architect to drive technical engagement with NVIDIA customers across AI Factory teams . In this role, you’ll connect real-world customer workloads to NVIDIA’s reference architecture ecosystem, helping developers and enterprises adopt and scale our platforms. We’re looking for someone with strong technical depth who can serve as a trusted advisor, bridge complex challenges to innovative solutions, and grow into a strategic resource for the customers and partners you support. If you’re passionate about applied technology and enabling others to succeed with advanced platforms, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Serve as a trusted advisor who understands complex or large-scale customer workloads and maps them to NVIDIA’s technology stack to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Co-design advanced, scalable architectures with customers , defining technical direction, integration achievements, and deployment plans.
• Engage hands-on with deep technical topics—designing, validating, and supporting solutions that enable customer success.
• Lead technical engagements, helping customers resolve sophisticated issues, and advocate for their technical needs.
• Partner multi-functionally with engineering and product teams to ensure successful deployment and continuous improvement of NVIDIA solutions.
• Be a technical specialist on NVIDIA products, directly supporting sales account managers to secure build wins.
Actively establish and cultivate technical relationships with engineers, management, and architects at key customer accounts.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in Industry background spanning software/hardware engineering, developer relations, technical partnerships, solutions architecture, or product management — with 3-5+ years of direct, hands-on experience in DataCenter design and architecture
• Deep technical expertise in AI High Performance Computing with a track record of driving product integrations and contributing to software or hardware platforms, systems, and libraries.
• Shown ability to communicate sophisticated technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from engineers to C-level executives.
• Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and a dedication to helping customers succeed.
Proven success in balancing insight for customer’s needs with the ability to drive complex product decisions through positive relationships.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• A hands-on technical expert and problem solver who can clearly describe solution paths for complex challenges.
• History of enabling customers and/or partners to optimally adopt NVIDIA technologies and platforms.
• A technical vision that influences product and engineering decisions and drives production outcomes.
• Practical knowledge of NVIDIA systems technology, such as DGX, NVL72, MGX and HGX systems, is a huge plus.
• Experience working with OEMs the Datacenter ecosystem, and understanding of DC power / cooling and rack placements.

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.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 2, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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