NVIDIA
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agentic IT Operations
$200K–$322K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines the technical strategy and builds production agentic AI systems and enterprise platforms that automate IT operations at scale.
What you'll do
- Own the reference architecture and engineering standards for enterprise agentic AI, including safety, evaluation, reliability, and observability.
- Build autonomous, LLM-based systems and integration platforms for employee support, endpoint services, and IT operations.
- Drive cross-organizational technical decisions and mentor senior and staff engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale, with deep expertise in Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Production Engineering.
- Production experience with agentic AI or LLM-based systems, including autonomous execution, tool calling, RAG, safeguards, evaluation, and governance.
- Production-grade proficiency with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, monitoring and observability tools, and Python, Go, or equivalent languages.
Nice to have
- Experience defining and scaling enterprise agentic AI or automation platforms, or building agent orchestration, evaluation, or LLM observability infrastructure.
- Experience with event-driven or workflow-orchestration architectures, or deep knowledge of ServiceNow or comparable ITSM/ERP platforms.
Pay
200,000 USD - 322,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty
AI focus
Develops and operates agentic AI systems for enterprise IT, including LLM-based agents, tool calling, RAG, orchestration, autonomous workflows, evaluation, and safety controls.
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