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Senior Manager, Software Engineering - JAX

NVIDIA· Mgmt, Dev Tech SW
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Santa Clara, CA$272k - $431.3kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager responsible for defining and driving NVIDIA's JAX strategy, coordinating multiple teams and workstreams to ensure peak performance across the platform and readiness on next-generation architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the engineering contribution strategy across the JAX ecosystem stack — including JAX core, XLA, Shardy, MPMD, and application-level codebases like MaxText — prioritizing where NVIDIA's contributions create maximum impact on performance, adoption, and ecosystem influence
  • Promote teamwork across organizational boundaries to shape NVIDIA's AI platform across compiler (XLA, TileIR, CUDA), runtime, networking, and hardware teams
  • Build deep partnerships with key open-source projects, especially Google's JAX team — supporting our partners while representing NVIDIA's interests in shaping the project's direction
  • Design processes and define clear success criteria to keep teams aligned to outcomes
  • Build staffing plans, review team capacity, and make strategic hiring decisions to stay ahead of current and future needs
  • Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization — developing technical leaders and creating space for your team to experiment, prototype, and build innovative systems that improve products and processes

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 10+ overall years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in engineering management or technical leadership
  • Strong technical background in system software, compilers, high-performance computing, or AI frameworks
  • Proven experience leading domain-level strategy and projects that span organizational boundaries, building consensus, influencing without direct authority, and tailoring communication to the audience from engineers to executives
  • Track record of owning outcomes across multiple projects and teams, balancing trade-offs, and driving progress with incomplete information
  • Experience identifying development cycle gaps and defining workflows across teams and organizations to improve efficiency
  • Experience leading teams that contribute to large-scale projects with external collaborators

Skills

Required:Leadership and cross-team coordination
Nice to have:JAX ecosystem knowledge

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as listed on NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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