Hiring: Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking Company: NVIDIA Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 17:59:07 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: SDN, OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes, CNI, DPU, SmartNIC, GPUDirect, Spectrum-X, EVPN, VxLAN, BGP, VRF, Data Center Networking, Cloud Network Infrastructure, Open Source, Product Strategy, Roadmap 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. 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. - Experience guiding upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes. - Defining requirements and 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. - Working with NCP operators and ISVs to translate 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. - Strong understanding of SDN, data center networking, or cloud network infrastructure. - Experience with open-source networking projects and community alignment. - Ability 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!