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Platform Engineer - AI Factories

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4 per year

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Description

Join NVIDIA's team of professionals in building platforms that operate AI factories at scale. You will collaborate with experts to drive product roadmaps, architecture, and implementation across multiple open-source and internal-facing products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop self-service SDKs, workflow templates, and reference implementations
  • Translate operational intent into versioned policies that define triggers, prerequisites, and actions
  • Define common contracts for tools, state, events, and workflow execution
  • Build agents that correlate hardware diagnostics and logs to investigate failures and propose diagnoses
  • Automate provisioning validation, node quarantine, and workload-aware maintenance
  • Tackle fleet-scale problems, including partial failures and correlated rack or cluster failures
  • Establish shared evaluation, CI/CD, and observability capabilities across teams
  • Drive cross-team adoption through build reviews, migration plans, and documentation

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field
  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a comparable field
  • Expert-level knowledge of a systems programming language (Go, Python, and/or Rust)
  • Strong background in Linux system administration and management
  • Experience handling cluster orchestration tools, including Kubernetes and/or SLURM
  • Understanding of software development patterns dedicated to agents and current security practices for agentic systems

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with open-source software projects, licensing, and governance
  • Proficiency in understanding and managing large-scale distributed systems
  • Deep knowledge of datacenter operations and GPU hardware
  • Advanced hands-on experience with cluster management systems (Kubernetes, SLURM)
  • Hands-on experience in Machine Learning Operations, Training, and/or Security fields

Salary: The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.

Benefits: You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

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Skills

Required

  • systems programming
  • Linux system administration
  • cluster orchestration
  • Kubernetes
  • SLURM
  • software development patterns
  • agentic systems
  • distributed systems

Nice to have

  • open-source software projects
  • large-scale distributed systems
  • datacenter operations
  • GPU hardware
  • cluster management systems
  • Machine Learning Operations
  • Training
  • Security fields
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