Principal Software Engineer, Agentic AI Applications and Foundations

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$272,000–$431,250 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
141 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Agentic AI Applications and Foundations

The Principal Software Engineer — Agentic AI Applications and Foundations joins the Enterprise AI team to harden production systems and architect next-generation agent infrastructure. This role focuses on improving reliability, performance, and observability across desktop, web, and service-based AI products. You will design resilient frontends, backend APIs, distributed services, and deployment systems while building reusable capabilities like orchestration services, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks. The position requires expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Electron, Python, Go, and Java to support LLM-powered applications, RAG, and agentic workflows. You will operationalize technologies such as Nemotron and NVIDIA AI Blueprints to solve problems in employee productivity, engineering efficiency, and AIOps. The work involves codifying architecture, mentoring engineers, and ensuring AI agents operate securely under enterprise governance.

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What you'll do

  • Improve reliability, performance, and observability across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.
  • Design and build resilient frontends, backend APIs, distributed services, and scalable deployment systems.
  • Establish patterns for testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence for AI applications.
  • Build reusable capabilities for orchestration services, deep-agent workflows, memory, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Validate and operationalize technologies like Nemotron and NVIDIA AI Blueprints in enterprise production settings.
  • Define the core architecture for secure agent discovery, collaboration, and enterprise governance.
  • Codify architecture, shared components, and operational playbooks while mentoring engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 15+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
  • Significant experience leading architecture and delivery across the full stack.
  • Experience building modern applications using technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Python, Go, or Java.
  • Proven track record of taking complex products from prototype to reliable, secure, and well-operated production systems.
  • Deep expertise in testing strategy, release engineering, observability, performance tuning, and incident response.
  • Working knowledge of modern AI application patterns such as LLM-powered applications, RAG, and agentic workflows.
  • Experience with GPU-accelerated systems or NVIDIA AI technologies such as NeMo, NIM, or TensorRT-LLM (preferred).

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