# Platform Engineer - AI Factories

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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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