NVIDIA
Lead Principal Engineer, Enterprise Agentic AI Platform
$272K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Principal · Full-time · Posted Feb 26, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and lead production enterprise agentic AI systems and platform architecture, turning prototypes into secure, scalable services through hands-on engineering.
What you'll do
- Develop end-to-end agent systems, runtimes, orchestration, memory, integrations, and evaluation pipelines.
- Define architecture through production deployments, reference implementations, reusable platform services, APIs, SDKs, and templates.
- Implement agent quality data flywheels and embed security, guardrails, isolation, auditability, and policy enforcement.
What they ask for
- 15+ years building and shipping large-scale distributed systems with significant hands-on coding in Python, Go, or similar systems languages.
- Proven experience constructing agentic AI systems, including RAG, persistent memory, multi-agent management, tool frameworks, and evaluation infrastructure.
- Expert-level depth in Kubernetes, containerized workloads, networking, APIs, and secure enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience with benchmarking, regression testing, telemetry, observability, and performance tuning in hybrid environments, including GPU-based inference systems.
Nice to have
- Master’s or PhD.
- Experience with reusable developer components, enterprise vector databases or agent platforms, runtime policy enforcement, GPU optimization, or meaningful open-source contributions.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Kubernetes, LangChain, LangGraph, Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Cowork
AI focus
Build enterprise agentic AI platforms and production agents, including multi-agent orchestration, memory, RAG, evaluation, telemetry-driven improvement, GPU inference, and secure runtime controls.
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