Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $174,600–$240,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $352k versus about $207k for comparable roles.
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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 896 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 876 roles with salary data.
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Principal Software Engineer, Agent Policy Fabric joins the Cloud Engineering & Services team to mature the Agent Policy Fabric core platform into a robust system for governed agent action. This role involves building and hardening Runtime Policy Verifiers, signed policy bundle verification, trust-root handling, and authorization APIs. The engineer will design policy projections, create conformance suites including fuzz and property tests, and collaborate with infrastructure teams to land public runtime interfaces. Candidates should possess extensive experience in systems software, security engineering, or distributed systems. Required technical skills include proficiency in Rust, Go, C++, or Python, alongside experience with Linux systems, gRPC, and cloud deployment environments. The role addresses the challenge of creating an enterprise governance layer for agentic systems, focusing on signed policy, runtime verification, credential mediation, and common audit across various runtime substrates and integrations.
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