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NVIDIA

Principal Software Engineer — Agentic AI Applications and Foundations

NVIDIA
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onsite senior full-time $150,000–$250,000 Santa Clara

First indexed 18 May 2026

Description

We are seeking a principal-level, hands-on engineering leader to make our Agentic AI applications bulletproof and to architect the next generation of agent infrastructure. As a principal software engineer, you will improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.

Your responsibilities will include designing and building resilient frontends, backend APIs, distributed services, data flows, and deployment systems that scale to enterprise use. You will 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.

You will also 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. Additionally, you will help validate and operationalize technologies such as Nemotron, NVIDIA AI Blueprints, and related platform capabilities in enterprise production settings.

To succeed in this role, you will need to have a proven track record of taking complex products from prototype to reliable, secure, well-operated production systems. You will also need to have solid experience building modern applications across frontend, backend, and platform layers, as well as experience building shared services, internal platforms, SDKs, or core infrastructure used by multiple teams or products.

We are looking for someone with strong judgment, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to influence across teams while remaining highly hands-on. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.