
Senior Software Engineer - DGX Cloud
Santa Clara, CAFull-time$224–431K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Senior Software Engineer will help scale NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure for data science applications, working across datacenter hardware, networking, distributed systems, and software deployment. The role builds automation and management capabilities for GPU assets and large-scale machine learning systems, and collaborates with engineering teams to integrate software from hardware through AI training applications.
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Full job description
Join a team of engineers at NVIDIA dedicated to scaling the AI infrastructure that powers cutting-edge data science applications. Our team solves complex challenges across datacenter hardware, networking, distributed systems, and software deployment. We collaborate closely to design and deliver leading infrastructure solutions. We value strong technical foundations paired with creative thinking and a bias toward execution. Together, we continuously push boundaries, grow our skills, and advance NVIDIA’s capacity to build and deploy AI-based infrastructure at scale.
What you will be doing:
- Contribute to a comprehensive platform that automates GPU asset provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management across cloud providers.
- Build end-to-end automation of data center management, break/fix, and the full span of system upkeep for large-scale Machine Learning systems.
- Implement monitoring and health management capabilities that enable industry-leading reliability, availability, and scalability of GPU assets.
- Harness multiple data streams, ranging from GPU hardware diagnostics to cluster and network telemetry.
- Build automated test infrastructure that we use to qualify distributed systems for operation.
- Partner with engineering teams across NVIDIA to ensure the software integrates seamlessly from the hardware all the way up to the AI training applications.
What we need to see:
- 12+ years of experience in a similar role working on large-scale production systems.
- BS in Computer Science/Engineering/Physics/Mathematics or other comparable degree, or equivalent experience.
- Expert level knowledge of a systems programming language (Go, Python, and/or Rust) and a solid understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
- Strong background in Linux system administration and management.
- Deep knowledge of container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and/or SLURM.
- Understanding of performance, security, and reliability in complex distributed systems.
- Familiarity with system level architecture, data synchronization, fault tolerance, and state management.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Proficiency in designing and building widespread distributed networks.
- Experience managing large-scale distributed systems independently of cloud providers.
- Extensive expertise in datacenter operations and GPU hardware.
- Hands-on experience working with RDMA networking.
- Advanced hands-on experience and deep understanding of cluster management systems (Kubernetes, SLURM).
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 31, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 34,503 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$224–431K/yr
- California median$165–246K/yr7,388 salary ranges
- US median$140–221K/yr27,655 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $328K, is 60% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,173 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 34,503 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 27,760 postings).
- Education
- 12,412 of the 34,503 open Software Engineer jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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