NVIDIA
Senior AI and HPC Observability Engineer
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 2, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, WA, Seattle - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and scale observability and telemetry platforms for distributed AI and HPC workloads, including high-throughput pipelines, backend services, and reliability frameworks.
What you'll do
- Design observability platforms for metrics, logs, and traces; develop telemetry ingestion, processing, and routing services.
- Develop OpenTelemetry components and operate real-time and batch telemetry pipelines using distributed data technologies.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through monitoring, tuning, and capacity planning.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java; hands-on experience with observability architectures, PromQL, and time-series data systems.
- Experience with distributed data pipelines and Kubernetes; understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and fault-tolerant design.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling observability platforms for AI, GPU, or HPC environments.
- OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and high-volume telemetry expertise; machine learning or statistical techniques for anomaly detection, correlation, or predictive insights.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, PromQL, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build observability for AI/ML and GPU workloads; preferred work includes integrating observability with AI/ML pipelines and using statistical or machine learning techniques for anomaly detection, correlation, or predictive insights.
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