Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Robotics Infrastructure

Nvidia

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Santa Clara, CA
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86 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Robotics Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Robotics Infrastructure, you will join the Isaac Applications Engineering team to build a platform for Physical AI robots. You will assemble the full robotics stack, proving it on real hardware from simulation through deployment. Your primary responsibility is ensuring software readiness for agents, including coding agents, customer-facing agents, and embedded agents. You will design APIs, build agent skills, create automated workflows, and manage CI/CD pipelines across applications repos. You will utilize CMake, Bazel, Python, Docker, and Linux to manage runners, dataset provisioning, and release pipelines. The role requires expertise in policy training, simulation, and on-robot deployment. You will also develop documentation, templates, and starter kits to drive adoption of agentic workflows and systematic performance evaluations.

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What you'll do

  • Design APIs, error surfaces, tooling, and documentation to enable agents to build on the robotics stack.
  • Create agent skills and automated workflows for team adoption and embedded robot support.
  • Integrate skill evaluations to measure agentic workflows and create automated checks to catch regressions.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines across application repos, including runners, Docker images, and release pipelines.
  • Package software patterns into documentation, templates, and starter kits to drive cross-team adoption.
  • Support embedded agents on robots while managing latency, safety, and determinism constraints.

What we're looking for

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Fluency in robotics software including policy training, simulation, and on-robot deployment across various languages and toolchains.
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with proven Docker and Linux fundamentals.
  • Practical experience using coding agents or LLM-based developer tools in real work.
  • Clear written communication skills for documentation, templates, and team persuasion.
  • Experience building agent skills, tool integrations, or MCP servers, and evaluating agent performance systematically (preferred).
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA robotics products such as Jetson, Isaac Sim/Lab, or Isaac ROS (preferred).

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