Senior Systems Software Engineer - Infrastructure - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 August 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 23 October 2026.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Systems Software Engineer to invent, set, and construct the infrastructure direction for the GPU Firmware Infrastructure team. The role is responsible for dev tools, build compute, test farms, artifact and release pipelines, secure signing services, and observability.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for major platform areas, leading the architecture, roadmap, and long-term health across multiple product cycles. - Design and lead infrastructure initiatives across team boundaries, aligning with firmware, hardware, and business partners. - Own platform reliability by defining SLIs and SLOs, instrumenting metrics, cutting MTTR, and automating incident response. - Identify and deliver automation opportunities across development and testing workflows. - Architect and invent AI-powered workflows to support team output. - Guide engineering standards through design review, technical writing, and mentoring.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent experience. - 12+ years of infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering experience. - Deep expertise in modern CI/CD and test automation architecture, including pipeline design, build system internals, caching, and testing frameworks at scale. - Strong Python fluency, infrastructure-as-code experience, and scripting ability. - Experience with distributed systems, cloud or on-prem compute fleets, containers, and orchestration (K8s or equivalent). - Strong understanding of database concepts, schema design, object modeling, and SQL or non-SQL systems. - Past ownership of cross-org production systems.
Skills: CI/CD, test automation, build system, platform reliability, distributed systems
This role has been open 77 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1010
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$229k
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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 (1010 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 291 | 1010 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 995 | 6298 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 52 d (−1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: CI/CD, test automation, build system, platform reliability, distributed systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 290 open roles · median 51 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 50 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 24 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 98 d
- Intel Corporation · 48 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 88 d
How we counted: 1010 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 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.
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