Software Engineer, Workflow Systems - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $241,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 August 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 24 October 2026.
About the role
NVIDIA's chip-design workflows coordinate long-running tools, generated design files, shared compute, and dependencies across engineering teams. This role builds the workflow definitions, configuration models, and reusable tool interfaces to deliver usable RTL-to-GDS workflows.
What you'll do
- Build workflow definitions, dependency models, and configuration systems that make final settings, their origins, and their effects explainable. - Implement workflow state and connect it to worker coordination, cancellation, retries, recovery, and resource controls alongside runtime engineers. - Integrate tools and schedulers through versioned interfaces with explicit inputs, outputs, resource needs, and completion checks. - Improve existing Python, Go, Perl, Tcl, Make, and shell infrastructure through focused changes, compatibility tests, and staged rollouts. - Review generated code from AI development tools, independently verify expected test results, and own behavior shipped to production users.
What you'll need
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience with 4+ years developing production software. - Strong programming in Go, Python, C++, Java, Rust, or another suitable language, with the ability to learn team languages. - Experience with workflows, build systems, job execution, release systems, scientific or ML infrastructure, controllers, or software that manages dependent work and persistent results. - Concrete reasoning about retries, concurrent activity, incomplete outputs, process failure, and safe changes to production systems. - Ability to learn an unfamiliar domain, make implementation decisions independently, and carry changes through verification and delivery.
Nice to have
- Experience owning worker or scheduler integrations, workflow execution, isolation, or recovery mechanisms under real failure conditions. - Experience building schemas, configuration layering, compilers, build graphs, or APIs that other engineers successfully extended. - Experience implementing reproducible runs, artifact manifests, lineage, cache invalidation, or modernizing mature systems with compatibility tests and shadow comparisons. - Experience debugging long-running tools and shared compute using Linux processes, files, permissions, resource accounting, or equivalent runtime mechanisms. - Experience integrating EDA tools or working with design, verification, HPC, or research teams.
Skills: Linux, automation, scripting, production infrastructure, workflow platform, Tcl
This role has been open 154 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
1012
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$224k
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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 (1012 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 286 | 1012 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 997 | 6277 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 52 d (−1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $224k |
Skills observed across this category: Linux, automation, scripting, production infrastructure, workflow platform, Tcl
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 291 open roles · median 52 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 25 d
- Graphcore · 51 open roles · median 99 d
- Intel Corporation · 48 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 89 d
How we counted: 1012 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.