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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
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As a Principal Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure, you will join the team to define platform architecture and spearhead the operationalization of internal frontier-class AI inference systems. You will lead initiatives to transform a global enterprise compute platform running thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of VMs and containers using OpenShift and KubeVirt. Your daily work involves building automated remediation pipelines, hardware watchdogs, and telemetry for rack-scale GPU systems while managing capacity planning and complex migrations of legacy workloads into modern Kubernetes orchestration. You will utilize Go, Python, Terraform, and OpenTofu to build self-service architectures and GitOps workflows via ArgoCD. The role focuses on solving infrastructure challenges for large-scale AI inference, addressing hardware supply constraints, and ensuring operational maturity across bare metal, virtualized environments, and multi-cloud deployments involving high-speed backplane networking and advanced storage protocols.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
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