Distinguished Engineer, Storage – AI Cloud
AI summary of the role
Lead the multi-year technical plan for AI Cloud Storage expansion across NCPs, defining reference architecture, SLOs, and roadmap for file, object, and block storage.
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What you’ll do
- Serve as chief storage architect with hands-on involvement, leading reviews, investigating production problems, and developing prototype implementations.
- Define production-ready standards for NCP storage including durability/availability SLOs, efficiency per TiB, and blast-radius containment.
- Develop open-source strategy for AI storage, engaging with upstream communities and formalizing APIs, SDKs, and protocols.
- Mentor senior, principal, and distinguished engineers and represent NVIDIA externally at industry forums.
What you’ll bring
- 18+ years of practical engineering experience in storage technology with expertise in high-performance parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS, WEKA, etc.) at multi-petabyte scale.
- Track record of crafting and managing storage platforms at exabyte scale for performance-critical workloads with direct responsibility for SLOs measured in 9s.
- 100% hands-on engineering: writes and reviews production code, reads kernel/storage source code, and runs scale tests personally.
- Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (C, C++, Rust, or Go) and Python, with comfort in Linux kernel storage and networking stacks.
Technologies
Lustre · GPFS · Spectrum Scale · WEKA · VAST · BeeGFS · DAOS · NVMe-oF · SPDK · Ceph · MinIO · RocksDB
About NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs and system-on-chips powering data centers, AI workloads, gaming, autonomous vehicles, and HPC. The foundational hardware for modern deep learning.
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continuously busy. It maintains exabytes of data securely and powers the largest AI workloads worldwide across cloud, neocloud, and on-prem setups. With the growth of accelerated computing, storage is essential. It can make the difference between effective GPU use and wasted potential and between launching a frontier model on time or missing the deadline by months. We seek a Distinguished Engineer to lead NVIDIA's storage strategy for AI Cloud across the Neocloud Provider (NCP) and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) ecosystem. You will direct the architecture of high-performance parallel file systems, object stores, and block storage at exabyte scale. You will stay hands-on, collaborating with engineers, SREs, partners, and storage vendors. You will apply NVIDIA's AI tools to increase your productivity and that of those you impact. This is a distinctive prospect to establish the storage
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