Software Manager, Infra Tools AI Team

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NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. We are now seeking a highly motivated Infrastructure, Tools & AI Engineering Manager to join our Ethernet Switching group, working on SONiC Network OS. In this role, you will own and drive the engineering infrastructure that powers the full product development lifecycle — from development environments and CI pipelines through regression, code coverage, and test efficiency. You will apply cutting-edge AI and LLM capabilities to transform how we analyze failures, generate test coverage, and accelerate product quality.

What you’ll be doing:

Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure and tooling engineers; set technical direction, define priorities, and grow team capabilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure for development, integration, and test environments supporting SONiC OS.
Architect and deliver LLM-based tools for intelligent regression analysis — failure classification, root cause clustering, anomaly detection, and test flakiness prediction
Lead efforts to reduce regression runtime through parallelization, smart test selection, and dependency-aware scheduling
Develop deep technical knowledge of SONiC Network OS internals, including its subsystem architecture, SAI/ASIC abstraction layer, and management plane

What we need to see:

B.Sc. degree or equivalent experience in Engineering/Computer Science/related field
8+ overall years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years of experience in a leadership role, managing software development teams
Proven ability to lead technical teams: hiring, mentoring, technical roadmapping, and cross-team influence
Experienced with developing software testing tools and tests infrastructure
Strong Python programming skills; experience building production-quality automation frameworks and tooling
Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD systems at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
Hands-on experience with LLMs or AI-assisted developer tooling — building, integrating, or productizing AI capabilities in an engineering workflow
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a bias toward measurable outcomes and data-driven decisions

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Deep Linux expertise: system internals, networking stack, process management, and scripting
Prior experience building LLM-powered test analysis pipelines or AI-enhanced DevOps tooling in a real production environment
Knowledge of networking protocols and hardware: Ethernet switching, L2/L3 protocols, QoS, VLANs, high-performance data center networking
Experience with code coverage instrumentation in large-scale C/Python codebases and using coverage data for test prioritization
Track record of measurably improving regression runtime, test reliability, or CI throughput in a complex embedded or systems software environment

How we rate this

Software Manager, Infra Tools AI Team at NVIDIA rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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