Solutions Architect, Virtualization

NVIDIA • Us, CA

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About The Position

We’re hiring a Senior Solutions Architect to drive technical engagement with VMware across vGPU and Virtualization solutions. In this role, you’ll connect real-world customer workloads to NVIDIA’s hardware and software 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 excited about applied technology and enabling others to succeed with advanced platforms, we’d love to hear from you!

Requirements

• 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 virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructure.
• Deep technical expertise in vGPU profiles, Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), GPU passthrough, VM sizing and density, and hypervisor-based delivery, with a track record of driving product integrations and contributing to software and hardware platforms, systems, and libraries.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from engineers to C-level executives.
• Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and a commitment to helping customers succeed.
• A track record of balancing empathy for VMware needs with the ability to drive complex product decisions through trusted relationships.
• Experience designing, validating, and deploying GPU-accelerated visualization, compute, or AI solutions in virtualized and containerized environments.

Nice To Haves

• 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 successfully adopt NVIDIA technologies and platforms.
• A technical vision that influences product and engineering decisions and drives production outcomes.
• Container-orchestration integration with VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, or upstream Kubernetes, including NVIDIA GPU Operator operations.
• Familiarity beyond VMware with Nutanix, Red Hat/OpenShift, Hyper-V, or KVM environments.

Responsibilities

• 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 VMware, defining technical direction, integration milestones, and deployment plans.
• Engage hands-on with deep technical topics—designing, validating, and supporting solutions that enable customer and partner success.
• Identify gaps between VMware needs and NVIDIA offerings, communicating insights that shape internal product and engineering priorities.
• Lead technical engagements, helping customers troubleshoot, resolve complex issues, and advocate for their technical needs.
• Drive technical enablement and platform adoption, helping developers and enterprises integrate NVIDIA SDKs, frameworks, and systems.
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to ensure successful deployment and continuous improvement of NVIDIA solutions.
• Partner with the VMware/Broadcom alliance team on joint validation, reference architectures, and customer-driven roadmap feedback.
• Enable vGPU Compute for AI inference, LLM routing, accelerated data science, and agentic AI workloads.
• Work with Red Hat, SUSE, Nutanix, and other ecosystem partners to support virtualization and workload management on NVIDIA hardware.

Benefits

• competitive salaries
• generous benefits package
• equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior