Principal Software Engineer - Employee Productivity - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$248,000 - $391,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 July 2026 by the employer.
Drive the evolution of AI-powered employee experiences across web and mobile platforms.
About the role
This role involves driving the evolution of AI-powered employee experiences across web and mobile, partnering with global teams to push technical boundaries. You will embed LLM and vector-search capabilities into existing product surfaces.
What you'll do
- Lead and code end-to-end features for AI-rich employee experiences across web and native mobile apps.
- Architect highly performant services and UIs for personalized content, knowledge, and search results.
- Own system design reviews, code reviews, and technical roadmaps, mentoring engineers.
- Integrate third-party HRIS, collaboration, and productivity platforms.
- Champion modern front-end patterns (React/Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind) and cloud-native back-end practices (K8s, containers, CI/CD).
- Instrument robust observability, tracing, structured logging, and SLA dashboards.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, other Engineering or related fields (or equivalent experience).
- 15+ years of full-stack product engineering, including 3+ years at the principal or staff level guiding cross-functional teams.
- Proven track record delivering consumer-grade web and/or mobile experiences at scale.
- Expertise in search, recommendation, or applied-AI systems.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure, K8s, and automated CI/CD.
- Strong data-modeling with relational and NoSQL stores.
- Fluency in application security.
Skills: AI-powered employee experiences, LLM, vector-search, cloud-native back-end, K8s
This role has been open 81 days — well above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
962
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (962 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 278 | 962 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 971 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 51 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI-powered employee experiences, LLM, vector-search, cloud-native back-end, K8s
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 274 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 19 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 93 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 12 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 962 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.