- BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, operating systems, and practical software design.
- Experience building performance-sensitive systems, storage, backend, or cloud-native software in languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java.
- Experience with storage systems, object stores, caching, Linux systems, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to reason about performance, scalability, concurrency, reliability, and operational tradeoffs in production systems.
- Ability to design APIs, document systems, communicate clearly, and break ambiguous infrastructure problems into practical execution plans.
- Curiosity and practical judgment around AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including using clear intent, specifications, acceptance criteria, tests, and verification to guide development.
Ways to stand out from the crowd
- Background with Linux kernel observability, eBPF, tracing, or low-overhead telemetry systems.
- Experience with FUSE, POSIX filesystems, object-store-backed filesystems, or filesystem metadata/indexing.
- Experience optimizing storage performance for AI training, checkpointing, inference, or large-scale data pipelines.
NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. Our invention, the GPU, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions, from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is seeking exceptional individuals like you to help us drive the next wave of artificial intelligence.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 152,000 USD – 241,500 USD for Level 3; and 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.