Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Workflows

Nvidia

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Santa Clara, CA
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13 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 Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Workflows

The Senior Staff Software Engineer — Agentic Workflows joins the Core Engineering Products team within the Platform Engineering Org to architect and develop AI automation for software delivery, model publishing, and AI development. You will lead the technical direction, architecture, and implementation of production automation, spending the majority of your time coding to convert recurring developer needs into reusable software capabilities. Responsibilities include building agents that interpret requests, retrieve knowledge, and execute actions across platform APIs and enterprise systems like ServiceNow and Jira. You will utilize Python, Go, and other backend languages to build LLM applications featuring tool integration, retrieval, and failure handling. The role solves the problem of manual developer wait times by automating onboarding, provisioning, and troubleshooting while ensuring secure identity-aware authorization and data-access boundaries.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and develop AI automation and agentic workflows to streamline software delivery and model publishing.
  • Own complete software projects from initial architecture and implementation through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
  • Build agents and services that interpret requests, retrieve knowledge, and execute actions across platform APIs.
  • Automate developer workflows including onboarding, provisioning, publishing assistance, and troubleshooting.
  • Engineer reliable execution through testing, observability, retries, recovery, and human-in-the-loop approval systems.
  • Integrate identity-aware authorization, credential protection, and auditability into all agent workflows.
  • Establish shared interfaces and engineering practices across platform, security, and identity teams.
  • Mentor engineers and conduct code reviews to improve software quality and team delivery capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production services, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated ownership of architecture and delivery for complex software projects with minimal mentorship.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or another backend language with strong practices in testing, code review, CI/CD, and production debugging.
  • Experience building LLM applications or agentic workflows, including tool integration, retrieval, evaluation, and failure handling.
  • Ability to build secure integrations involving enterprise identity, permissions, credentials, and sensitive data.
  • Record of leading cross-team technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
  • Experience delivering AI automation with measurable reductions in support effort or developer wait time (preferred).

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