Senior Software Engineer, NeMo Helix Core Platform

Nvidia

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$184,000–$287,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
20 days ago
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Above market

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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, NeMo Helix Core Platform

The Senior Software Engineer, NeMo Helix Core Platform joins the Core team to develop an open source plugin-based AI platform for running and optimizing Agents across multiple compute backends like local, docker, Kubernetes, and Slurm. You will design an Agentic Execution system, build Core Platform APIs for jobs, data, secrets, and RBAC, and extend the flexible Plugin Architecture. Key responsibilities include providing technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and maintaining high standards for open source code. You must utilize Python for API design, typing, and performance analysis while managing distributed systems, cloud-native services, and containers. This role addresses the technical challenge of making autonomous AI systems more sustainable by enabling agents to automatically run parallel experiments to find efficient architectures with better throughput.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

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What you'll do

  • Design a flexible Agentic Execution system compatible with local, Kubernetes, and Slurm environments.
  • Build and maintain Core Platform APIs for job execution, data storage, secrets management, and RBAC/Auth.
  • Extend the plugin architecture to allow internal teams and external customers to add new capabilities.
  • Provide technical leadership through architectural design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of junior engineers.
  • Improve reliability, observability, debuggability, and performance across SDKs, plugins, and developer workflows.
  • Maintain high standards for open-source contributions within the public repository.
  • Develop robust test coverage across unit, integration, end-to-end, Docker, and Kubernetes workflows.

What we're looking for

  • BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to produce and review high-quality architectural RFCs.
  • Strong system design skills with an ability to build robust systems for reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
  • Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, and job orchestration.
  • Excellent Python engineering skills including API design, typing, testing, debugging, and performance analysis.
  • Experience designing SDKs, libraries, plugins, CLIs, or other developer-facing interfaces.
  • Experience building agentic AI systems in Kubernetes or with sophisticated plugin architectures (preferred).

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