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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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As a Senior Software Engineer, AI Agent Compute, you will join the team to drive the design and development of an agent compute delivery platform centered on a custom agent sandbox cloud VM solution. You will lead initiatives from architecture and systems design through implementation, testing, and deployment to create scalable, secure services for isolated agent workloads. Your daily work involves developing automation for infrastructure provisioning, VM lifecycle management, application delivery, and monitoring while collaborating with internal teams to translate AI workflow requirements into platform capabilities. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, including asynchronous processing and idempotency, alongside experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Go, and TypeScript. You will also utilize Temporal for durable execution and workflow orchestration to solve the technical challenge of building a reliable infrastructure for next-generation agentic services and coding agents.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 791 postings across 63 companies.
Lead cloud VM platform initiatives from architecture and systems design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
Design, build, and operate scalable services to support secure and isolated agent workloads.
Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, VM lifecycle management, application delivery, and monitoring.
Translate business and AI workflow requirements into dependable platform capabilities for internal teams.
Improve the platform's reliability, scalability, observability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and infrastructure security.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering with a focus on backend or distributed systems.
Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts including service communication, asynchronous processing, failure handling, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, including data modeling, migrations, and performance.
Understanding of secure software development, cloud security, identity and access management, secrets management, and network security.
Experience with AI-native development and coding agents to multiply developer efficiency.
Deep expertise in Go and TypeScript (preferred).
Production experience with Temporal for durable execution, workflow orchestration, and long-running distributed processes (preferred).
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