Jobs / United States / Nvidia Corporation
Senior System Software Architect, AI and GPU Networking
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
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 roles2 certified filings for “Manager System Software” (Architectural and Engineering Managers) in OR: $224k–$272k, median $248k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% 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.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Nvidia Corporation
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
NVIDIA has been defining computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. With an outstanding legacy of innovation, driven by phenomenal technology, and extraordinary people, NVIDIA is looking for a strong technical senior architect to join us in shaping the future. Senior Architects are innovators who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. As a Senior architect in the AI Networking Research team, you will explore technological challenges on accelerate networking and building AI data centers. Research new transport functions and semantics for optimizing AI workloads, AI systems communication and accelerations and much more. You will also be leading architectural and development efforts across numerous technological fields, related to the modern AI data center, such as distributed AI and deep learning solutions, data analytics, High Performance Computing (HPC), Software Defined Networking (SDN), virtualization, storage, and more. What you’ll be doing: • Enhance NVIDIA's GPU Networking offerings for accelerating AI workloads, such as NVIDIA Dynamo, NVIDIA NIXL and NVIDIA UCX, tailored to the unique requirements of AI workloads. • Co-design hardware features (e.g., in GPUs, DPUs, or interconnects) that accelerate data movement and enable new capabilities for inference and model serving. • Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations and partner relationships for alignment with our technology roadmap and business value. • Lead architecture and design of new technologies and innovations such as runtime systems, communication libraries, AI-specific technologies. • Lead proof-of-concept development to evaluate and drive such technologies. What we need to see: • Hold a M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering from a leading university (or equivalent experience). • 5+ years of industry experience (or equivalent) in system architecture, AI systems architecture, scaling of AI, Parallelism of AI frameworks, or deep learning training workloads. • Experienced in algorithm design, system programming, computer architecture and operating systems. • Experienced in virtualization, networking and storage. • Deep understanding of performance profiling and optimization techniques, together with defining and using hardware features. • Strong programming and software development skills. • Ability and flexibility to work and communicate effectively in a multi-national, multi-time-zone corporate environment. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Shown research track record. • Have experience and passion for system architecture, CPU/GPU/memory/storage/networking. • Stellar communication skills. • Knowledge in Deep Learning frameworks and AI communication libraries (NCCL, UCX, MPI and equivalents). • Deep understanding of Inference and Training workloads and optimizations, like Prefill/Decode, data parallelism, Tensor parallelism, FDSP and others. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic prote