Principal Data Platform Architect

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Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office
272K-426K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
The Principal Data Platform Architect will lead the vision and roadmap for observability systems in AI and HPC clusters, enhancing data collection, storage, and visualization to improve efficiency and productivity.
Summary Generated by Built In

NVIDIA’s Hardware Infrastructure organization is seeking a Principal Data Platform Architect. We serve and collaborate directly with NVIDIA’s rapidly growing AI, HW, and SW engineering and research teams across the company. We are looking for a technical leader to define a vision and roadmap for distributed data platform and observability systems for large-scale AI and HPC clusters and workloads and guide implementation towards this vision. You will architect systems for data collection, aggregation, enrichment, storage, retrieval, and visualization to spectacularly improve efficiency, performance, and productivity of AI and HPC workloads. You will lead technical teams to develop, deploy, and operate observability solutions for multiple compute clusters around the world.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Collaborate with AI, HW, and SW engineering and research teams to define a vision and roadmap for AI/HPC cluster observability.

  • Architect and lead teams to develop, test, and deploy data collectors, pipelines, visualization and retrieval services.

  • Define data collection and retention polices to balance network bandwidth, system load, and storage capacity costs with data analysis requirements.

  • Work in a diverse team to provide operational and strategic data to empower our engineers and researchers to improve performance, productivity, and efficiency.

  • Continuously improve quality, workloads, and processes through better observability.

What We Need to See:

  • Experience designing and building large scale, distributed observability systems.

  • Ability to collaborate with data scientists, researchers, and engineering teams to identify high value data for collection and analysis.

  • Experience with turning raw data into actionable reports

  • Experience with observability platforms such as Apache Spark, Elastic/Open Search, Grafana, Prometheus, and other similar open-source tools

  • Technical lead level Python, JS and Java programming experience.

  • Thorough understanding of databases (relational and non-relational)

  • Passion for improving the productivity of others

  • Excellent planning and interpersonal skills

  • Flexibility/adaptability working in a dynamic environment with changing requirements

  • MS (preferred) or BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience

  • 15+ years of relevant experience.

Ways To Stand Out from The Crowd:

  • Background in computer science, machine learning, deep learning, open-source software, infrastructure technologies, and GPU technology.

  • Prior experience in infrastructure software, production application software development, software development, release and support methodology and devops

  • Experience in the management of datacenters and large-scale distributed computing

  • Experience in working with AI researchers and/or EDA developers

  • Consistent track record of driving process improvements and measuring efficiency and a passion for sharing knowledge and experience driving complex projects end-to-end.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until January 13, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Top Skills

Spark
Elastic/Open Search
Grafana
Java
JavaScript
Prometheus
Python
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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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