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Senior Software Program Manager - Datacenter Compute Server
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 US, CA, Santa Clara
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles113 certified filings for “Manager Systems Software” (Architectural and Engineering Managers) in CA: $214k–$248k, median $222k. Most were filed at wage level II (40%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Software Program Manager to join NVIDIA’s Compute Software platform team. Our work has made major impact in various fields, and are used across leading academic institutions, start-ups, and industry; including the world’s largest Internet companies. We need passionate, hard-working, and creative people to help us reach our Engineering goals. What you will be doing: • Work closely with software and firmware development managers, engineers, and other logistical personnel to understand, define and implement processes to support as well as NVIDIA GPUs HPC and AI platforms to cloud service provider customers and OEMs. This will also include responsibilities related to general compute and firmware releases. • Lead software and firmware execution for Datacenter class of Servers, Rack Solution and PCIe products, drive release schedules and plans, executive status updates. Schedule and lead status meetings, be the focal point for building and maintaining the release schedules as well as the release plan of record. • Collaborate with teams across the company to plan and drive Software/Firmware objectives for the team. In this role, you will collect requirements, help define priorities, drive scheduling, and planning for all phases of the process implementation. You will develop and maintain schedules, for the many moving parts that need to work in parallel. Lead and improve existing product development and software release processes; and collaborate with engineering management to refine the development workflow for maximum engineering efficiency. You will have the opportunity to partner with diverse technical groups, spanning all organizational levels. • Internally, you will translate customer requirements into achievable goals and actions and ensure that customers are kept up to date on issue status. • Partner with various internal teams and third party located in different time zones as needed to help resolve customer issues. • Manage customer releases. • Drive process documentation. • Work with customer PMs on software issues including technical feedback from OEM/ODMs and CSPs. • Improve and maintain all processes related to enterprise support. • Should be able to understand big picture of complete NVIDIA SW stack that runs on NVIDIA GPUs. What we need to see: • Solid ability to get complex Datacenter products to customers. Experience with datacenter servers and associated SW technologies highly desired. • Hands on experience with software development and processes, specifically for system software / firmware development. • Strength working independently and actively with minimal direction from others. Proven experience to creatively resolve technical issues and resource conflicts • Ability to think strategically and tactically and to build consensus to make programs successful. • Detailed knowledge of software engineering principles. • Experience with industry standard configuration management tools. Experience with productivity tools and process automation. • You should be detail oriented with shown ability to multitask, in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities and changing requirements. • Program Managers with excellent verbal and written communication and technical presentation skills. BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent experience), with 12+ years proven experience in a similar or related role Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Operating systems principles, Linux OS and Programming experience in modern programming languages advantageous. Datacenter functional knowledge and experience with PCIe boards is a plus. • Previous experience coordinating activities between HW, Firmware and SW organizations, is a plus. • Knowledge of GPUs and NICs is a p