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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.

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