Senior Staff Software Engineer — Agentic Workflows - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
Architect and develop AI automation to enable engineering teams.
About the role
This role involves architecting and developing AI automation to enable engineering teams to address issues, retrieve services, and finalize development workflows more efficiently.
What you'll do
- Establish the long-term technical vision for AI automation and agentic workflows.
- Own complete software projects from architecture and implementation through deployment and ongoing improvement.
- Build agents and services that interpret requests, retrieve relevant knowledge, diagnose issues, and complete approved actions.
- Automate onboarding, provisioning, publishing assistance, and troubleshooting for developers.
- Engineer reliable execution through evaluation, testing, observability, retries, recovery, and human approval.
- Build identity-aware authorization, credential protection, auditability, and data-access boundaries into agent workflows.
What you'll need
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of architecture and delivery for complex software projects.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or another backend language, with strong practices in testing, code review, CI/CD, and production debugging.
- Experience building LLM applications or agentic workflows, including tool integration, retrieval, evaluation, and failure handling.
- Ability to build secure integrations involving enterprise identity, permissions, credentials, and sensitive data.
Skills: AI automation, agentic workflows, production services, distributed systems, LLM applications
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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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 (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 281 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6127 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 50 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: AI automation, agentic workflows, production services, distributed systems, LLM applications
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.