Staff - Principal, Software Engineer, SDK
About the role
This role is for a Staff - Principal Software Engineer focusing on SDK development for AI data center infrastructure. The scope covers software across silicon, packaging, and systems designed to eliminate communication bottlenecks and improve GPU utilization.
What you'll do
- Architect and develop the software development kit (SDK) interfacing with hardware and systems across silicon and packaging innovations.
- Address communication bottlenecks to increase GPU utilization, training job completion times, and tokens-per-second for inference workloads.
- Design software components that integrate into data center systems while optimizing power efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with systems, silicon, and hardware teams to deploy software solutions validated for hyperscaler environments.
What you'll need
- Experience developing software development kits (SDK) and platform software for hardware or systems infrastructure.
- Background working with data center software stacks, communication frameworks, or GPU acceleration environments.
- Experience in system software architecture across hardware, silicon, or distributed compute platforms.
Skills: Software Development Kit, API design, data center software, platform software
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This role has been open 186 days — well above the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1022
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Median days open
53 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Eridu AI | All employers we track in this specialty (1022 roles · 93 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 1022 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 14 | 6531 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 186 d | 53 d (+133 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: Software Development Kit, API design, data center software, platform software
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 335 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 55 open roles · median 61 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 38 open roles · median 24 d
- Arm Holdings · 37 open roles · median 11 d
How we counted: 1022 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 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.