# Principal Software Engineer - Employee Productivity

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the evolution of AI-powered employee experiences across web and mobile. The successful candidate will lead and code end-to-end features, architect highly performant services and UIs, embed LLM and vector-search capabilities, own system design reviews, code reviews, and technical roadmaps, integrate third-party HRIS, collaboration, and productivity platforms, champion modern front-end patterns and cloud-native back-end practices, instrument robust observability, tracing, structured logging, and SLA dashboards, and uphold security, privacy, and accessibility standards.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

- Champion 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.

Requirements:

- 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.

Preferred qualifications:

- Shipped gen AI features (RAG, copilots, chatbots) to thousands of daily users.

- Contributions to open-source search or front-end frameworks.

## Skills

### Required
- full-stack product engineering
- cloud infrastructure
- K8s
- automated CI/CD
- data-modeling
- relational and NoSQL stores
- application security
- mentoring
- search
- recommendation
- applied-AI systems
- React/Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- containers

### Nice to have
- gen AI features
- open-source search
- front-end frameworks

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