Principal Software Engineer — Agentic AI Applications and Foundations
Architect and harden production-grade infrastructure for agentic AI using Nemotron and NVIDIA AI Blueprints.
Originally posted 8 June 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 31 October 2026.
About the role
NVIDIA's Enterprise AI team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to harden production systems and architect infrastructure for agentic AI applications. In this hands-on engineering leadership role, you will build and operationalize platforms supporting technologies such as Nemotron and NVIDIA AI Blueprints.
What you'll do
- Improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.
- Design and build frontends, backend APIs, distributed services, data flows, and deployment systems that scale to enterprise use.
- Establish patterns for testing, debugging, CI/CD, safe rollout, auto-update mechanisms, monitoring, and incident response for agentic AI applications.
- Build reusable capabilities supporting multiple agent domains, including orchestration services, deep-agent workflows, memory and context services, evaluation frameworks, telemetry, and policy-aware tool integration.
- Validate and operationalize technologies such as Nemotron and NVIDIA AI Blueprints in enterprise production settings.
- Define core architecture for how AI agents discover one another, collaborate securely, build trust, and operate under enterprise governance.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, including leading architecture and delivery across the full stack.
- Experience building modern applications across frontend, backend, and platform layers using technologies such as TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Electron, Python, Go, Java, APIs, data systems, and distributed infrastructure.
- Familiarity with enterprise application deployment, security, authentication, device management, and application lifecycle management.
- Proven track record taking products from prototype to production with expertise in testing strategy, release engineering, observability, performance tuning, and incident response.
- Working knowledge of modern AI application patterns such as LLM-powered applications, RAG, tool use, CLI-based workflows, reusable skills, MCP-based integrations, evaluation loops, memory systems, and agentic workflows.
Skills: AI agents, full-stack depth, production systems, backend APIs, distributed services, CI/CD
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This role has been open 205 days — well above the 57-day median for Software Engineering Semiconductor roles.
Software Engineering Semiconductor · AI EDA Design
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Open roles in category
94
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Median days open
57 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$184k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (94 roles · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 94 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1117 | 6360 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 205 d | 57 d (+148 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Skills observed across this category: AI agents, full-stack depth, production systems, backend APIs, distributed services, CI/CD
Who's hiring in this category
- KLA Corporation · 14 open roles · median 50 d
- Applied Materials · 10 open roles · median 75 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 47 d
- Lam Research · 8 open roles · median 35 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 7 open roles · median 33 d
- Etched · 6 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 94 open Software Engineering Semiconductor (AI EDA Design) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 31 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.