Nvidia

Senior Software Engineer, Bare Metal Infrastructure – DGX Cloud

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Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$152k - $288k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain production services for bare-metal discovery, provisioning, hardware validation, firmware upgrades, auditing, repair, and recovery.
  • Develop integrations with Redfish and vendor BMC interfaces to manage server state, inventory, health data, configuration, and recovery across different vendors.
  • Contribute to and review Rust code while building supporting tools and services in Go and Python.
  • Automate detection, validation, and repair of recurring hardware, firmware, and connectivity failures.
  • Define validation and production-handoff criteria for new platforms, firmware releases, and rack-scale deployments.
  • Debug failures across hardware, firmware, Linux, networking, and provisioning services.
  • Partner with hardware vendors and internal platform, networking, datacenter, and production engineering teams.
  • Use AI agents and LLM tools to write, review, test, and investigate software failures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years building production infrastructure software, automation, or services, including substantial hands-on bare-metal server experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, or Python, with experience designing, testing, shipping, and maintaining production code.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise server hardware from Dell, Supermicro, Lenovo, and HPE, including BMCs, BIOS/UEFI, and firmware management.
  • Direct experience with Redfish, IPMI, and network boot technologies including PXE/iPXE, DHCP, and HTTP boot.
  • Strong Linux knowledge covering boot processes, kernel and driver interactions, hardware discovery, and low-level failure analysis.
  • Solid datacenter networking fundamentals and the ability to trace connectivity issues across host, management, and infrastructure networks.
  • Regular experience using AI agents and LLM tools in software development, with the judgment to validate their output.
  • Preferred experience includes production Rust, NVIDIA DGX or NVL72 systems, NVLink, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, BlueField DPUs, hardware qualification, rack-scale bring-up, firmware certification, fleet firmware upgrades, Kubernetes, GitOps/Argo CD, or fleet-management platforms.

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity and benefits.
  • Base salary is listed for Level 3 and Level 4 and varies by location, experience, and comparable employee pay.
  • Applications will be accepted at least until November 1, 2026.
  • This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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About Nvidia

10,000+ employees

Nvidia designs and sells GPUs and accelerated computing platforms for data centers, AI/ML, graphics, gaming, and automotive, monetizing through hardware, software platforms (CUDA, AI frameworks), and systems like DGX and networking. Customers include cloud providers, enterprises, researchers, and OEMs. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ under NVDA.

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