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This position offers practical, on-site technical support for initial deployments, critical field challenges, preparation shortfalls, and repeated build issues that need focused technical resolution.\nYou will collaborate with NVIDIA engineering, services, architecture, program, account, field, and partner-facing teams to identify issues, shorten resolution times, validate diagnostic flows, and transform field findings into repeatable guidelines. This role suits a senior technical contributor who can work onsite, provide clarity during critical issues, and help establish a more consistent approach for AI Factory build-outs. This is a field-facing role with encouraged onsite support during critical build, bring-up, validation, and blocking issue windows.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nDeliver direct field assistance for AI Factory build implementation, encompassing First Time Deployments, deployment bring-up, validation, and issue triage with OEM and deployment partners.\nServe as a senior technical resource for urgent field issues involving customer concerns across rack, server, GPU, networking, storage, firmware/BMC, Linux, cabling, power, thermal, and deployment-tooling domains.\nDeploy to partner or field sites as needed to support targeted rapid response, critical issue closure, and execution risk reduction.\nDrive structured triage for deployment blockers, including failure reproduction, data collection, domain isolation, quality of critical issue packets, and owner alignment.\nHelp reduce time to resolution by validating diagnostic flows, improving test practices, and detailing repeatable troubleshooting methods.\nSupport bone-pile review and reduction by helping classify failures, identify repeat patterns, and connect field data to root cause and corrective actions.\nCapture First Time Deployment lessons learned and update guidelines, readiness criteria, and execution playbooks for reuse across OEM engagements.\nProvide concise leadership access to issue status, risk, blockers, decision needs, and recovery plans during active deployments.\nWhat we need to see:\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).\n5+ years of experience in data center deployment, rack integration, technical field support, manufacturing support, partner services, infrastructure bring-up, or large-scale systems troubleshooting.\nPractical experience troubleshooting intricate infrastructure problems related to servers, GPUs, switches, storage, firmware/BMC, Linux, cabling, optics, power, thermal, or deployment tooling.\nExperience working directly with partner, customer, OEM, ODM, system integrator, or deployment services teams in field or production environments.\nStrong troubleshooting in the field, including rigorous debug, clean data collection, reproduction quality, and clear handoff of critical issues.\nAbility to operate onsite in fast-paced deployment environments while communicating clearly with engineering, field teams, partner teams, and leadership.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex technical issues into executive-ready status and risk updates.\nTravel required (up to 50%) to support field engagements, partner sites, and deployment activities.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nExperience with AI Factory, accelerated computing, rack-scale AI infrastructure, large-scale GPU systems, or HPC deployments.\nBackground with NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA networking, InfiniBand, RoCE, high-speed Ethernet, or large-scale cluster bring-up.\nExperience crafting or improving diagnostic flows, test procedures, readiness playbooks, blocking issue templates, or best-practice libraries.\nExperience with bone-pile analysis, RMA/failure pattern review, root cause feedback loops, or systemic quality improvement.\nStrong Linux, scripting, automation, telemetry, or log-analysis skills.\nNVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 132,000 USD - 207,000 USD for Level 3, and 160,000 USD - 253,000 USD for Level 4.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until October 18, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.\nNVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.\nNVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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