NVIDIA
Senior Systems Software Engineer - Infrastructure
$224K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in EE/CS/CE (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Leads the architecture and development of infrastructure, automation, and AI-powered workflows supporting NVIDIA GPU firmware software and release systems.
What you'll do
- Set platform technical direction, architecture, roadmap, and long-term health.
- Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives and improve platform reliability through measurement, automation, and incident response.
- Design AI-powered workflows, and raise team effectiveness through reviews, technical writing, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- BS or MS degree in EE/CS/CE (or equivalent experience).
- Deep expertise in modern CI/CD and test automation architecture.
- Strong Python fluency, infrastructure-as-code experience, and scripting ability.
- Experience with distributed systems, compute fleets, containers and orchestration, database concepts, and ownership of cross-org production systems.
Nice to have
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools.
- Experience developing device BIOS, firmware, or other low-level embedded software.
Pay
224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, CI/CD, K8s, SQL
AI focus
Architect and invent AI-powered workflows to multiply team output; experience with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.
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