Hiring: Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking Company: NVIDIA Location: Redmond, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 17:59:07 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: SDN, OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes, CNI, DPU, SmartNIC, Spectrum-X, GPUDirect, EVPN, VxLAN, BGP, VRF, Kubernetes, Data Center Networking, Cloud Network Infrastructure, Open-Source Networking, Product Management Experience: - 12+ years in technical product management, grounded in networking: SDN, data center networking, or cloud network infrastructure - Background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience - Proven ability to lead a technical product end to end and go deep with engineering - Experience partnering with engineering, ISV and cloud partners, and open-source communities Required Skills: - Depth in network fundamentals: overlays/underlays, VRF, VxLAN, BGP/EVPN, ACLs, NAT, routing, and load balancing - Familiarity with OVN/OVS and how logical networking maps to a hardware-offloaded data plane on a DPU or SmartNIC - Comfort with Kubernetes as a networking delivery surface: the CNI model - Ability to set product strategy and multi-quarter roadmaps for open-source SDN projects - Guiding upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes - Defining requirements, priorities, and making trade-off calls to keep roadmaps focused and shippable - Surfacing key product and architecture decisions and resolving them with engineering partners - Mapping dependencies across internal DPU, fabric, and virtualization teams and upstream releases - Translating NCP operator and ISV needs into roadmaps and reference deployments Qualifications: - Background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience - 12+ years in technical product management with networking focus - Deep understanding of SDN, data center networking, or cloud network infrastructure - Experience with open-source networking projects and upstream contribution strategy - Strong communication skills to represent work to the community and leadership Compensation: Not specified in the provided job text. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!