Hiring: Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking Company: NVIDIA Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 17:59:07 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords: SDN, OVN, OVS, OVN-Kubernetes, Kubernetes CNI, GPUDirect, Spectrum-X, EVPN, VxLAN, BGP, DPU, SmartNIC, Data Center Networking, Cloud Network Infrastructure, Product Strategy, Roadmap, Open-Source Experience: - 12+ years in technical product management, grounded in networking: SDN, data center networking, or cloud network infrastructure. - 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. - Background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience. 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 projects. - Skill in defining requirements, priorities, and making trade-off calls to keep roadmaps focused and shippable. - Capability to surface key product and architecture decisions and resolve them with engineering partners. - Experience mapping dependencies across internal DPU, fabric, and virtualization teams and upstream releases, flagging risks early. - Ability to translate partner and operator needs into roadmaps and reference deployments, and represent work to the community and leadership. Qualifications: - Background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience. - 12+ years in technical product management with networking focus. - Comfortable with EVPN control-plane trade-offs and DPU offload decisions. - Experience guiding upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes. - 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!