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Senior Product Manager, AI Software Defined Networking

NVIDIA· Product Management
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Seattle, WA, Santa Clara, CA, Redmond, WA$208k - $327.8kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Product management role focused on building the AI Factory SDN stack (OVN/OVS/OVN-Kubernetes) and guiding upstream contributions, partner engagement, and multi-quarter roadmaps for an open-source, upstream-first SDN product in NVIDIA's AI factory environment.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering, NVIDIA ISV and cloud partners, and the open-source community to bring SDN to the AI Factory.
  • Setting the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for our AI Factory SDN open-source projects.
  • Guiding upstream development across OVN, OVS, and OVN-Kubernetes: identifying which features should land upstream, deciding what ships where, and aligning NVIDIA's work with the community's.
  • Defining requirements and priorities, and making trade-off calls to keep the roadmap 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, flagging risks early and keeping the critical path clear.
  • Working with NCP operators and ISVs to translate their needs into the roadmap, ready reference deployments, and represent the work to the community and to leadership.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • 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, CRDs, and how pod and VM networking is provisioned and isolated.
  • Track record of crafting multi-quarter product vision and shipping networking or infrastructure products with engineering teams.
  • Experience in or alongside open-source communities, and with cloud service providers or platform partners.
  • Bachelor's degree, equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Product strategy and roadmappingTechnical requirement definitionUpstream/open-source collaborationNetworking fundamentalsKubernetes networking

Benefits

  • equity
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • base salary and equity eligibility
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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