Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Tooling - DriveOS
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 October 2026 by the employer.
Join NVIDIA to build the software platform behind autonomous vehicles and other intelligent machines for safety-critical applications.
About the role
You will combine software engineering and AI-enabled automation to build tools that help teams deliver reliable software and evidence for product risk.
What you'll do
- Design and implement highly available automation systems, developer tooling, and intelligent dashboards that improve and monitor the quality of DriveOS builds and releases.
- 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 (ISO 26262, ISO 21434) and quality models (ISO 25010).
- 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, including code-generation copilots, agentic coding assistants, and automated documentation tools.
- Define and deploy governance policies for AI-assisted tooling outputs, ensuring traceability, auditability, and compliance when AI-generated artifacts feed into safety-certified processes.
What you'll need
- 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 (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience building production-grade, full-stack systems including backend microservices (Python, Node.js, Go), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, relational and NoSQL datastores, graph databases (e.g., Neo4j), and modern web interfaces (React, Next.js, or TypeScript).
- Hands-on experience deploying LLM and agentic applications, including agent frameworks, tool integration, MCP-based systems, memory and orchestration, prompt engineering, guardrails, evaluation, and RAG/GraphRAG architectures.
- Experience building internal developer portals and AI-powered interfaces, including chat-based or conversational UIs for agent interaction.
- Strong SQL and data-warehousing skills for managing high-volume metrics across multiple programs.
Skills: process-automation solutions, CI/CD environments, infrastructure-as-code, AI capabilities, ISO 26262
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
905
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (905 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 258 | 905 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 971 | 5996 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 52 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: process-automation solutions, CI/CD environments, infrastructure-as-code, AI capabilities, ISO 26262
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 253 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 58 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 26 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 71 d
- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 98 d
- Renesas Electronics · 36 open roles · median 34 d
How we counted: 905 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 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.