Senior Software Engineer

NVIDIA's Infrastructure and Tooling team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the engineering environment behind DriveOS, a software platform for autonomous vehicles and intelligent machines. The successful candidate will design and implement automation systems, developer tooling, and intelligent dashboards to improve the quality of DriveOS builds and releases.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement highly available automation systems, developer tooling, and intelligent dashboards that improve and monitor the quality of DriveOS builds and releases.
• Partner with teams across the organization to shape infrastructure roadmaps and consolidate tooling initiatives.
• Architect AI-native pipelines that integrate LLM-based agents, RAG systems, and multi-agent orchestration into core engineering workflows.
• Translate multi-functional collaborator requirements into process-automation solutions that operate in environments aligned with automotive standards.
• Build integrated data pipelines that aggregate telemetry from global systems and surface executive-level insights through advanced visualization and predictive quality metrics.
• Evaluate and operationalize emerging AI capabilities.
• Help define and deploy governance policies for AI-assisted tooling outputs.
• Raise the standard for tooling quality and architectural guidelines.

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or software tooling.
• Strong proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of tooling architecture and design patterns.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale CI/CD environments and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience building production-grade, full-stack systems.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM and agentic applications.
• Experience building internal developer portals and AI-powered interfaces.
• Strong SQL and data-warehousing skills.
• Clear communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience developing and deploying tools across distributed organizations.
• Prior experience in automotive, aerospace, or medical industries.
• Experience building plugin-based or extensible tooling platforms.
• Experience building and maintaining AI evaluation harnesses.

Salary: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. Benefits: Equity and benefits package.