Principal Software Engineer — Agentic AI Applications and Foundations

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Principal Software Engineer to lead the development and hardening of agentic AI applications and infrastructure within NVIDIA's Enterprise AI team. This role focuses on improving reliability, performance, and scalability of AI products, designing resilient systems, establishing operational excellence, and building reusable capabilities for agent domains. The position requires deep expertise in production software systems, full-stack development, and modern AI application patterns, with a strong emphasis on turning prototypes into mature, well-operated production systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.
  2. Design and build resilient frontends, backend APIs, distributed services, data flows, and deployment systems that scale to enterprise use.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Define the core architecture for how AI agents discover one another, collaborate securely, build trust, and operate under enterprise governance.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 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
  • Working knowledge of 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
  • Strong judgment, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills

Nice to have

  • Experience hardening desktop or client applications at scale, including installers, auto-update systems, crash recovery, and enterprise distribution
  • A track record of improving engineering velocity and consistency through common frameworks, platform services, design patterns, and developer tooling
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ years building and operating production software systems
  • Deep expertise in testing strategy, release engineering, observability, performance tuning, and incident response
  • Proven track record taking complex products from prototype to reliable, secure, well-operated production systems

Other signals

  • building and operating production software systems
  • architect the next generation of agent infrastructure
  • improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Working knowledge of 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
  • 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