NVIDIA
Principal Software Engineer — Agentic AI Applications and Foundations
$272K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 8, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years.
- Education
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Leads hands-on engineering of reliable, scalable production AI applications and shared agent infrastructure across NVIDIA.
What you'll do
- Improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and user experience across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.
- Design and build scalable frontends, APIs, distributed services, data flows, deployment systems, and reusable agent capabilities.
- Set operational and architectural practices for testing, rollout, monitoring, incident response, secure agent collaboration, and enterprise governance; mentor engineers and partner across teams.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
- 15+ years building and operating production software systems, including significant full-stack architecture and delivery leadership.
- Experience with enterprise application deployment, security, authentication, device management, and application lifecycle management.
- Proven experience taking complex products into reliable, secure production; expertise in testing, release engineering, observability, performance tuning, and incident response.
Nice to have
- Experience hardening desktop or client applications at scale, or improving engineering velocity through shared frameworks and tooling.
- Experience building reusable AI infrastructure or agent-collaboration systems; familiarity with GPU-accelerated systems or NVIDIA AI technologies.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Electron, Python, Go, Java, Nemotron, NVIDIA AI Blueprints
AI focus
Build and operationalize production agentic AI applications and infrastructure, including orchestration, memory and context services, evaluations, tool integrations, and secure agent collaboration.
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