# Principal Engineer, AI Tooling and Workflows

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

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## Description

NVIDIA's Infrastructure, Planning and Process (IPP) Team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the next generation of AI-powered engineering platforms. In this role, you will define and build agentic AI systems, developer productivity platforms, and intelligent workflow automation that accelerate software delivery across NVIDIA's engineering organization.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the technical vision, architecture, and execution for AI-native developer tooling and workflow automation platforms used across NVIDIA engineering.

- Invent and develop production-grade autonomous AI systems that can reason over engineering workflows - code, documentation, CI/CD pipelines.

- Drive the evolution of AI-assisted processes in software development, including code understanding, requirements traceability, validation, tests, build and release automation, security review.

- Define platform-level standards for reliability, evaluation, observability, safety, security, latency, cost efficiency, and human-in-the-loop controls for LLM-powered systems.

- Partner with engineering leaders, teams across products, infrastructure, security, and research to identify high-leverage opportunities and deliver solutions with broad impact.

- Influence technical direction across multiple teams by setting architecture patterns, reviewing designs, raising engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers.

**Requirements:**

- PhD or MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- 15+ years of software engineering experience.

- Experience in large-scale platforms, distributed systems, AI systems, or developer infrastructure used by demanding engineering teams.

- Deep hands-on expertise with LLM applications, agentic workflows, RAG, embeddings, vector search, tool use, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI system safety.

- Exceptional architecture judgment across APIs, services, data pipelines, Kubernetes, observability, reliability engineering, security, and production operations.

- Strong coding ability in Python and at least one major production language such as C++, Go or Rust, with the judgment to build simple systems that scale.

- Technical leadership at Principal level: setting direction, aligning collaborators, guiding senior engineers, and raising the engineering bar across boundaries.

**Benefits:** NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- AI systems
- LLM applications
- agentic workflows
- distributed systems
- Kubernetes
- Python
- C++
- Go
- Rust

### Nice to have
- GPU computing
- drivers
- compilers
- embedded systems
- robotics
- autonomous vehicles

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