Principal Software Engineer - Employee Productivity
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA · Today
EngineeringFull-time
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and code end-to-end features that power a seamless, AI-rich employee experience across web and native mobile apps.
- Architect highly performant services and UIs that surface personalized content, knowledge, and search results to a global workforce.
- Embed LLM and vector-search capabilities into existing product surfaces, driving relevance and continuous learning loops.
- Own system design reviews, code reviews, and technical roadmaps raising the engineering bar and mentoring engineers across the team.
- Integrate third-party HRIS, collaboration, and productivity platforms to create cohesive, automated user journeys.
- Promote modern front-end patterns (React/Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind) and cloud-native back-end practices (K8s, containers, CI/CD).
- Instrument robust observability, tracing, structured logging, and SLA dashboards, helping our SREs achieve 24×7 reliability for employees in every region.
- Uphold security, privacy, and accessibility standards across all user journeys.
What We Need To See
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, other Engineering or related fields (or equivalent experience)
- 15+ years of full-stack product engineering, including 3+ years at the principal or staff level guiding cross-functional teams
- Proven track record delivering consumer-grade web and/or mobile experiences at scale
- Expertise in search, recommendation, or applied-AI systems
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure, K8s, and automated CI/CD
- Strong data-modeling with relational and NoSQL stores
- Fluency in application security
- Excellent mentoring, comfortable setting vision and rolling up sleeves
Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd
- Shipped generative AI features (RAG, copilots, chatbots) to thousands of daily users
- Contributions to open-source search or front-end frameworks
Base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $248,000 - $391,000. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.