Senior DevOps Engineer - Robotics

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$184,000–$287,500 / yr
Posted
23 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 · Senior DevOps Engineer - Robotics

Join NVIDIA’s Robotics DevOps team as a Senior DevOps Engineer where you will build and operate end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for Isaac robotics platform applications built on ROS 2, ensuring consistent behavior across diverse compute platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams to improve observability through automation and monitoring while triaging CI failures and driving resolution of infrastructure issues. With a strong background in DevOps or SRE roles, you should have hands-on experience with AWS, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, and ROS 2, along with expertise in Linux systems and container technologies. This role demands proficiency in C++ and Python services testing on Linux, as well as contributions to internal or open-source tooling for CI/CD systems.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for Isaac robotics platform using ROS 2.
  • Ensure consistent behavior across NVIDIA compute platforms through pre-merge validation and nightly testing.
  • Triage CI failures to distinguish between infrastructure and product issues effectively.
  • Enhance observability in pipelines and systems via automation, metrics, logging, and monitoring.
  • Streamline ROS 2 development workflows by managing multi-repository builds and complex dependencies.
  • Contribute to technical direction and documentation for improving quality and reliability standards.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with at least 3 years in a senior role.
  • Deep expertise in CI/CD pipelines and hands-on experience with GitLab CI/GitHub Actions.
  • Strong Linux systems knowledge including networking, storage, performance, and security.
  • Practical experience using AWS or similar cloud platforms for CI/compute workloads.
  • Proven understanding of container technologies like Docker; Kubernetes experience preferred.
  • Experience working with ROS 2 and Isaac ROS development environments.
  • Contributions to internal or open-source tooling related to CI/CD systems.

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