Senior Engineer, Enterprise Data Governance

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$168,000–$270,250 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $219k
$124k most similar roles pay here $286k

This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$212,875 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $219k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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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

Nvidia currently has 896 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Enterprise Data Governance

As a Senior Engineer - Enterprise Data Governance, you will join the team responsible for building the company's enterprise data governance platform. You will own the roadmap for sensitive-information detection and remediation while managing governed data access across various collaboration systems like Outlook, Teams, Slack, Confluence, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Google Drive. Your daily work involves integrating content into AI knowledge platforms, ensuring accuracy, and enforcing export controls through robust audit logging, schema design, and RBAC controls. You will utilize skills in backend systems, distributed systems, data engineering, and ML-based classification models to solve the complex challenge of balancing broad AI agent access with strict security policies. The role requires expertise in large-scale data processing, indexing pipelines, and integrating enterprise SaaS tools to ensure that internal information remains secure yet accessible for advanced computing applications.

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What you'll do

  • Own the roadmap for sensitive information detection and remediation in collaboration with Finance, Legal, and Security teams.
  • Integrate ML-based classification models to detect and manage sensitive content across unstructured data at scale.
  • Drive production rollout and self-service onboarding for a multi-platform enterprise data access system.
  • Design and implement export-control enforcement, audit logging, and RBAC controls across all connected systems.
  • Integrate diverse content sources into the AI knowledge platform while ensuring accuracy and authorized access.
  • Enforce quality standards for content ingestion regarding freshness, accuracy, and access-control correctness.
  • Serve as a technical lead to make architectural decisions and resolve ambiguity across multiple project charters.
  • Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and technical mentorship of other engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale enterprise platforms with demonstrated growth in technical scope.
  • Strong foundation in backend systems, distributed systems, and data engineering for reliability and scale.
  • Experience building or integrating data connectors or enterprise SaaS integrations like Confluence, SharePoint, Google Drive, Slack, or Teams.
  • Experience training and evaluating ML models for classification tasks in security, content sensitivity, or information governance.
  • Strong communication skills to translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with access control models, remediation workflows, and audit requirements in enterprise security or compliance contexts.
  • Experience with AI/LLM data pipelines, vector stores, RAG architectures, or tools like Databricks and Glean.

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