NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer, NeMo Helix Core Platform
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +6 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Remote
US, CO, Remote
US, WA, Remote
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US, NY, Remote
US, MA, Remote - Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
- Education
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and lead development of NeMo Helix’s open-source core platform for executing, orchestrating, and optimizing AI agents across compute environments.
What you'll do
- Design agent execution systems and core platform APIs, including jobs, data, entities, secrets, RBAC, and authentication.
- Lead technical design, reviews, mentoring, and cross-component work; extend the plugin architecture.
- Improve reliability, observability, performance, and test coverage across the platform and developer workflows.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, and job orchestration.
- Excellent Python engineering skills and experience designing developer-facing interfaces such as SDKs, libraries, plugins, or CLIs.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating production agentic AI systems at scale in Kubernetes.
- Experience with sophisticated plugin architectures or enterprise AI systems requiring measurement, governance, and continuous improvement.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Slurm
AI focus
Develop agent execution and orchestration systems that run experiments in parallel and optimize agent architectures for efficiency, token use, model selection, and throughput.
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