Senior Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise AI Platform - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$200,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role defines constructs for agents operating safely within NVIDIA's enterprise, focusing on blueprints, tools, skills, plugins, and the runtime safety harness.
What you'll do
- Design agent blueprints with clean interfaces for authorization, sandbox, memory, observability, and skills.
- Build the runtime safety harness including a policy engine, rate/budget caps, circuit breakers, and a kill switch.
- Enable composing and orchestrating agents with declarative manifests and multi-agent orchestration for delegation.
- Broker credentials for multi-agent systems to authenticate and authorize with least-privilege scoping.
- Provide checkpoint and recovery for agents to resume cleanly after a crash or restart.
- Instrument observability and evaluation across harnesses, including decision-level traces and cost anomaly alerts.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ years building distributed systems, infrastructure, or developer platforms at scale.
- Hands-on experience building agents on a harness, exposing them as APIs, and shipping them with CI/CD.
- Experience deploying and operating long-running services on container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with messaging, caching, and durable storage.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar.
Skills: Enterprise AI Platform, autonomous agents, cloud, distributed systems, container orchestration
This role has been open 35 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 | 6144 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 50 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Enterprise AI Platform, autonomous agents, cloud, distributed systems, container orchestration
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.