Principal Software Engineer — Agentic AI Applications and Foundations

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a principal-level, hands-on engineering leader to improve the reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience of AI products. This role requires a deep understanding of production software systems, including experience leading architecture and delivery across the full stack.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.
• Design and build resilient frontends, backend APIs, distributed services, data flows, and deployment systems that scale to enterprise use.
• Establish strong patterns for testing, debugging, CI/CD, safe rollout, auto-update mechanisms, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence so our Agentic AI applications behave like mature software, not prototypes.
• Build reusable capabilities that support multiple agent domains, including orchestration services, deep-agent workflows, memory and context services, evaluation frameworks, telemetry, and policy-aware tool integration.
• Help validate and operationalize technologies such as Nemotron, NVIDIA AI Blueprints, and related platform capabilities in enterprise production settings.
• Codify architecture, shared components, documentation, and operational playbooks; mentor engineers; and create foundations that are durable, reusable, and broadly owned.
• Define the core architecture for how AI agents discover one another, collaborate securely, build trust, and operate under enterprise governance.
• Partner closely with domain AI engineers, product managers, designers, infrastructure teams, IT, and research to deliver measurable outcomes across employee productivity, engineering efficiency, AIOps, and enterprise operations.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 15+ years building and operating production software systems, including significant experience leading architecture and delivery across the full stack.
• Solid experience building modern applications across frontend, backend, and platform layers. This may include technologies such as TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Electron or similar desktop frameworks, Python, Go, Java, APIs, data systems, and distributed infrastructure.
• Proven track record taking complex products from prototype to reliable, secure, well-operated production systems. Deep expertise in testing strategy, release engineering, observability, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Experience building shared services, internal platforms, SDKs, or core infrastructure used by multiple teams or products.
• Experience with modern AI application patterns such as LLM-powered applications, RAG, tool use, CLI-based workflows, reusable skills, MCP-based integrations, evaluation loops, memory systems, and agentic workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong judgment, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to influence across teams while remaining highly hands-on.

Skills

• Experience hardening desktop or client applications at scale, including installers, auto-update systems, crash recovery, and enterprise distribution.
• Experience building reusable infrastructure for AI products, such as orchestration layers, memory/context services, evaluation platforms, human-in-the-loop workflows, or policy and safety controls.
• Familiarity with identity, discovery, trust, reputation, or graph-based systems relevant to large-scale agent collaboration.
• Experience with GPU-accelerated systems or NVIDIA AI technologies such as NeMo, NIM, Nemotron, TensorRT-LLM, or AI Blueprints.

Benefits

Base salary range: $272,000 - $431,250. Eligible for equity and benefits. Applications accepted until June 12, 2026.

Pay

Base salary determined based on location, experience, and similar positions.

Schedule

Not specified.

Company Information

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.