Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI and Observability

Nvidia

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Santa Clara, CA
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49 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 Software Engineer, Agentic AI and Observability

As a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI and Observability, you will join the BizApps SRE team to advance the Agentic AI Factory model. This role focuses on the fast development, deployment, and operation of AI-powered applications across the enterprise. You will build and implement observability solutions including metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting for agentic AI applications in production. Key responsibilities involve developing deployment pipelines, defining SLOs/SLIs, and instrumenting LLM-based workflows for performance, cost, and quality monitoring. You will use Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure while leveraging tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Prometheus. You will solve technical problems regarding hallucination detection, orchestration failure tracing, and multi-step reasoning chains to ensure reliability for complex distributed systems and agentic AI build patterns.

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What you'll do

  • Build and implement observability solutions including metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting for agentic AI applications.
  • Develop and sustain deployment pipelines and reliability tools for the Agentic AI Factory model.
  • Define SLOs and SLIs with AI application teams to ensure production readiness for new agent deployments.
  • Instrument LLM-based workflows to monitor performance, cost, quality, token usage, and tool orchestration.
  • Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements for BizApps AI services.
  • Identify and close observability gaps such as hallucination detection and orchestration failure tracing.
  • Integrate reliability throughout the development lifecycle by working with platform, data, and application engineering groups.

What we're looking for

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience and strong software engineering skills in Python and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Prometheus.
  • SRE/DevOps approach to production systems, automating toil, and building for reliability.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven track record of debugging complex distributed systems.
  • Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and agentic AI build patterns (preferred).
  • Experience operating ML/AI systems in production environments (preferred).

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