NVIDIA
Principal Software Engineer, Agent Policy Fabric
$272K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara +5 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 22, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, NC, Remote
US, TX, Remote
US, NY, Remote
US, FL, Remote
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- 15+ years of industry experience in systems software, security engineering, distributed systems, or policy infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Mature the Agent Policy Fabric proof-of-life into a core platform for verifying and projecting signed policies and governing agent actions across runtime environments.
What you'll do
- Build APF core services, including runtime policy verification, signed-policy checks, trust-root handling, and authorization APIs.
- Implement deterministic policy projections and build conformance, compatibility, security, and verification tests.
- Coordinate public runtime interfaces with runtime owners and define platform architecture, specifications, and failure behavior.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, or Python, with experience designing production services, APIs, schemas, policy engines, authorization systems, or signed artifact pipelines.
- Infrastructure familiarity with Linux systems, IPC or service-to-service APIs, protobuf/gRPC or equivalent wire formats, CI, test automation, release engineering, and cloud or enterprise deployment environments.
- Practical security engineering experience with authorization, cryptographic signatures, trust roots, revocation, subject binding, rollback protection, secure-by-default failure handling, and zero-trust patterns.
- Ability to write technical specifications, align engineering owners, defend bounded claims, and turn architecture into buildable interfaces.
Nice to have
- Experience with runtime policy systems such as OPA/Rego, Cedar, Zanzibar-style authorization, policy compilers, sandbox policy, or runtime enforcement.
- Experience in agent runtime security, supply-chain signing, formal or adversarial verification, or standards engagement.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
Rust, Go, C++, Python, Linux, protobuf/gRPC, OPA/Rego, Cedar
AI focus
Build governance and security infrastructure for agentic systems, including policy verification, runtime enforcement, and tool-use governance.
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