Senior Software Engineer, Metropolis Vision AI - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer for Metropolis Vision AI, you will develop and optimize high-performance vision systems that process streams of video, image, and 3D data into actionable insights. You will collaborate with specialists in perception, simulation, and large models to build large-scale distributed Vision AI platforms powering intelligent spaces, smart cities, retail analytics, and digital twins.
What you'll do
- Design and implement Vision AI pipelines for real-time and streaming scenarios using computer vision and deep learning models. - Develop and refine large-scale distributed services responsible for processing video, image, and 3D data in edge and cloud settings. - Build multi-modal perception capabilities combining 2D, 3D, and temporal information to understand complex real-world scenes. - Use simulation and synthetic data tools to build, test, and validate perception algorithms at scale. - Collaborate across product, research, and platform teams to translate requirements into implementations, lead reviews, and mentor engineers.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). - 12+ years of professional software development experience using modern C++ (14/17/20) and Python on Linux. - Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, asynchronous I/O, and distributed systems concepts. - Demonstrated expertise in computer vision and deep learning, with a history of deploying production systems. - Experience with PyTorch for training, fine-tuning, and deploying models for vision tasks. - Proficiency in Linux-based environments with containers and microservices, integrating AI components into scalable back-end services.
Skills: Vision AI pipelines, distributed services, processing video, image, and 3D data, GPU-accelerated inference pipelines, computer vision and deep learning
This role has been open 103 days — well above the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (998 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 290 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 992 | 6222 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 50 d (−3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Vision AI pipelines, distributed services, processing video, image, and 3D data, GPU-accelerated inference pipelines, computer vision and deep learning
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 290 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 86 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.