Autonomous Agent Engineer

Nvidia

Actively hiring
Us, Ca, Santa Clara, US Posted 49 days ago $184,000–$287,500 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a senior engineer on NVIDIA’s autonomous agent team, you will design and build the foundational infrastructure that enables AI agents to operate securely and autonomously. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting sandboxed compute environments, developing SDKs and CLI tooling in Python and Go for provisioning and managing agent workloads, embedding security into SDK primitives, and building observability and audit infrastructure. You will also create onboarding templates and reference implementations that ensure secure execution by default. This role requires deep systems engineering skills with experience in containers, microVMs, Kubernetes, and Linux security primitives, as well as a track record of shipping widely adopted developer tools. Ideal candidates have expertise in building execution environments for agentic AI systems and familiarity with sandboxing technologies like gVisor or Firecracker.

Skills

Python Go Rust Kubernetes Linux Docker gVisor Firecracker Kata Containers V8 Terraform AWS CI/CD Prometheus Grafana OAuth JWT LDAP SAML Kerberos GitOps

What you'll do

  • Design and build secure sandboxed environments for autonomous AI agents.
  • Develop SDKs and CLI tools to provision and manage agent workloads.
  • Embed security features into SDK primitives like isolation policies and kill switches.
  • Create state management systems for long-running agent operations, including recovery.
  • Engineer authentication integrations for workload identity and delegated tool access.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience building distributed systems and developer platforms.
  • Deep expertise in containers, microVMs, Kubernetes, and Linux security.
  • Track record of shipping widely adopted SDKs or CLIs.
  • Experience with execution environments for agentic AI systems.
  • Strong background in sandboxing technologies like gVisor, Firecracker.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar programming languages.
  • Designed multi-tenant execution platforms and durable execution patterns.

Market check

Salary context

This $184,000–$287,500 range sits above 65% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$169,000–$249,600

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$162,000–$251,262

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Nvidia

Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

Nvidia currently has 802 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 798 roles with salary data.

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