Principal Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure

NVIDIASanta Clara, CAfull_timeprincipal

$248,000 – $391,000 USD

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

  • Define Platform Architecture: Lead initiatives to architect and transform the global enterprise compute platform, defining service tiers, SLAs, and automated cluster lifecycles.
  • Operationalize Frontier AI Infrastructure: Build the operational foundation for an internal AI inference platform scaling to frontier-class models, developing automated remediation pipelines, hardware watchdogs, and telemetry.
  • Drive Strategic Capacity & Scale: Collect and review system data for capacity planning, developing proactive strategies including public cloud bursting, hardware dogfooding, and evaluating alternative compute architectures.
  • Build the "Paved Road": Collaborate with NVIDIA engineering teams to drive cultural adoption of standard platforms, designing self-service architectures, APIs, and Terraform/OpenTofu providers.
  • Lead Complex Migrations: Evaluate existing application architectures and drive the migration of massive legacy workloads into modern Kubernetes orchestration.

Soft Skills

Team Leadership

Benefits

  • Equity

Culture

Mission-DrivenInnovationDiverse LeadershipWork-Life Balance

Requirements

Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience
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