Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Agent Platform - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$200,000 - $391,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
NVIDIA is building infrastructure for autonomous AI agents.
About the role
This role involves designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure that powers NVIDIA’s AI agent ecosystem, focusing on foundational services for developing, deploying, orchestrating, and operating autonomous AI agents at production scale.
What you'll do
- Build and develop platform services that manage the full agent lifecycle from registration through deployment, execution, and teardown.
- Architect multi-tenant Kubernetes execution environments with pod lifecycle management and per-tenant namespace isolation.
- Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and ArgoCD, including reusable pipeline templates.
- Build framework-agnostic infrastructure supporting multiple agent SDKs and harnesses.
- Build and operate Kafka-based message pipelines and real-time event streaming using Redis PubSub and SSE.
- Develop data ingestion pipelines, access interfaces, and storage layers that power AI agent knowledge and context.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years in software engineering, ideally in platform engineering, infrastructure, or developer tools.
- Experience building and scaling AI agents in production using frameworks like Claude Code, Codex, or LangGraph.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise including pod orchestration, persistent storage, RBAC, and multi-cluster management.
- Strong Python skills with production API experience using FastAPI, Flask, or similar async frameworks.
- Proven track record designing distributed systems with Kafka, Redis, and MongoDB or PostgreSQL.
- Expertise building and managing robust CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and ArgoCD for continuous delivery to Kubernetes.
Skills: platform services, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AI agents, distributed systems
This role has been open 1 day — well below 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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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| 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: platform services, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AI agents, distributed systems
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.