NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Policy Fabric
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience in systems software, backend services, distributed systems, security engineering, or policy infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate production components for Agent Policy Fabric, an enterprise governance layer that verifies and projects policies and integrates them with AI-agent runtimes.
What you'll do
- Implement policy verification, authorization APIs, and runtime-specific policy projection.
- Develop and test runtime integrations, conformance tests, and failure-path coverage.
- Deliver production-ready components with observability, performance measurement, operational documentation, and rollout support.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong programming skills in at least one of Rust, Go, C++, or Python, with experience delivering maintainable, tested production code.
- Experience building and delivering services or systems components, including API design, integration, debugging, and error handling.
- Practical experience implementing security controls and working knowledge of Linux, service interfaces, automated testing, CI, and release workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience with policy engines or authorization systems, signed artifacts and trust tools, or AI-agent runtimes and credential isolation.
- Experience with protobuf/gRPC, schema evolution, cloud or enterprise deployments, property testing, or fuzzing.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD base salary (Level 3); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4)
Tools
Rust, Go, C++, Python, OpenShell, OPA/Rego, Cedar, Sigstore
AI focus
Build an enterprise governance layer for AI agents, including policy verification, runtime-specific policy enforcement, runtime integrations, and governance of agent actions.
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