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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Distinguished Engineer, Production Engineering, Data Center Automation - **Company:** NVIDIA Corporation - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $190,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Hardware Infrastructure - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59554616-distinguished-engineer-production-engineering-data-center-automation ## About the Role * 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 in production engineering, SRE, infrastructure software, or cloud platforms * Confirmed experience in establishing operating models, architectural direction, and engineering standards across various technical domains and organizations * Consistent record leading large, cross-team technical efforts from concept through production, including aligning collaborators, navigating complexity and delivering measurable outcomes Ways to stand out from the crowd: * You have developed the production operating model for a large, diverse infrastructure environment spanning multiple platforms or providers * You have set widely recognized operating standards, architectures, APIs, or workflows that increased reliability, operability, or performance at company scale * You have built automation and engineering interfaces that connect platform teams, infrastructure teams, and service owners into a consistent production system ## Description NVIDIA is looking for a Distinguished Engineer to act as a senior technical leader in the Production Engineering group, enthusiastic about cluster operations involving DGX Cloud GPU capacity. At NVIDIA, Production Engineering is responsible for ensuring large-scale production systems are reliable, straightforward to lead, and increasingly automated across NVIDIA's DGX Cloud resources. We combine software engineering, systems engineering, and extensive production knowledge to build platforms, workflows, and operational frameworks that sustain GPU infrastructure health, scalability, and availability for researchers and customers. This role centers on the operational framework supporting DGX Cloud environments spanning on-premises, major cloud providers, and NVIDIA Cloud Partner locations. The responsibilities include engineering integrations to guarantee DGX Cloud capacity is fully operational in production. This involves Kubernetes service management, ensuring vendor and equipment availability, on-prem infrastructure operations, release and runtime preparation, and service reliability coordination. The workflows tie these elements into a cohesive production system. This hands-on Distinguished Engineer role calls for a deeply technical leader to build the architectural direction for cluster operations in DGX Cloud. The ideal candidate will blend software engineering expertise, system knowledge, and production insight to define technical strategy, set operating standards, direct the evolution of the production model, and drive delivery of cross-organizational capabilities. These capabilities ensure that the DGX Cloud resources remain usable, maintainable, and improve continuously at scale. The position demands both deep invention and implementation skills and the ability to lead by influence across several teams and critical production results. What you'll be doing: * Define the long-range technical strategy for operating DGX Cloud clusters consistently across on-prem, hyperscalers, and NeoCloud environments * Define the architectural vision and core operational guidelines for cluster lifecycle, runtime delivery, restoration, release readiness, and steady-state operability throughout DGX Cloud resources * Guide the roadmap and execution of critical cross-organizational investments that improve production readiness, operational safety, performance, and cross-team coordination * Make and guide high-impact technical decisions that resolve how platform, hardware, provider, and service teams coordinate to operate DGX Cloud resources in production * Develop robust workflows, interfaces, and engineering collaboration across Kubernetes production service, provider and hardware readiness, on-prem and bare-metal infrastructure operations, and service-layer reliability domains ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers - Stephen Jones - NVIDIA](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1303-coffee-with-developers-stephen-jones-nvidia) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [The Sustainability Race: AI's Promises, Pitfalls and Potential](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100155-the-sustainability-race-ai-s-promises-pitfalls-and-potential) - [Green Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/592-green-cloud-computing) - [Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2133-building-the-nervous-system-of-ai-michael-kagan-nvidia) - [Your Next AI Needs 10,000 GPUs. 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