Senior DPU Datapath Engineer, Validation & Automation

About the role

You will lead a local team driving the DPU test strategy and execution, owning validation for regression, functionality, and scalability of NVIDIA software releases. Your day-to-day involves designing automation to orchestrate DPU/host configurations and OVS pipelines, while integrating these tests into CI/CD to gate production releases. You will collaborate with operations on incident patterns, participate in on-call rotations, and work directly with vendors like NVIDIA on escalations and feature validation. Additionally, you will influence the long-term architecture of DPU dataplane and control-plane designs from a testability perspective.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in networking, systems, or cloud infrastructure engineering, focusing on dataplane technologies and production operations.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA DPUs (e.g., BlueField) in large-scale deployments, including firmware/software lifecycle and offload pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of OVS configuration and pipelines, including bridges, flows, and hardware offloads.
• Solid background in cloud networking infrastructure, including VPCs, routing, security policies, and overlay/underlay networking.
• Proven ability to build test and automation frameworks using Python, Golang, or similar languages.
• Proficiency in network observability and troubleshooting using tools like tcpdump, iproute2, and perf.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead technical direction and mentor junior engineers.
• Preferred:
• Experience validating NVIDIA DPU / DOCA / HBN stacks in a cloud provider environment.
• Prior work on system tests for network switches, smartNICs, or DPUs.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based environments and DPU integration into node lifecycles.
• Contributions to open-source projects such as P4, OVS, DPDK, or DOCA libraries.
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