Nvidia

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise AI Platform

Nvidia
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Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$200k - $322k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design agent blueprints with authorization, sandbox, memory, observability, and skills interfaces.
  • Build runtime safety and policy controls including rate and budget caps, circuit breakers, approval gates, action allow-lists, and kill switches.
  • Develop declarative skills, multi-agent orchestration, delegation and handoff, and support for headless long-running agents.
  • Broker credentials for multi-agent authentication and authorization with least-privilege token scoping.
  • Build checkpoint and recovery capabilities for agents after crashes or restarts.
  • Instrument cross-harness observability and evaluation with decision-level traces, correlation IDs, cost anomaly alerts, and quality scoring.
  • Participate in the shared on-call rotation for the production platform.

Requirements

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years building distributed systems, infrastructure, or developer platforms at scale.
  • Hands-on experience building agents on a harness, exposing them as APIs, and shipping them with CI/CD.
  • Experience deploying and operating long-running services on container orchestration platforms.
  • Experience with messaging, caching, and durable storage as building blocks of scalable systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar language.
  • Preferred experience building runtime safety or policy engines with approval gates and kill switches.
  • Preferred experience designing agent evaluation and feedback loops, including self-improving loops based on evaluation and production signals.
  • Preferred knowledge of threat modeling, authentication and authorization, least privilege, secrets management, and token exchange.
  • Preferred experience designing AI data platform components such as ingestion pipelines, vector stores, and retrieval APIs.
  • Preferred experience shipping platform building blocks adopted by multiple engineering teams and leading migrations or greenfield platform projects.

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity and benefits.
  • Base salary is determined by location, experience, and pay for similar positions.
  • Production role with participation in an on-call rotation.
  • Applications accepted at least until September 13, 2026.

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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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