Systems Software Engineer - Infrastructure - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $241,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 August 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 23 October 2026.
About the role
NVIDIA's GPU Firmware Infrastructure team is looking for a Systems Software Engineer to build and automate the tools, compute, and pipelines supporting GPU firmware development. The role focuses on build systems, regression farms, CI/CD pipelines, secure signing services, and observability infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build, supervise, and improve core infrastructure including build systems, regression farms, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and web service frameworks.
- Debug and resolve issues across hardware, software, infrastructure, and team processes.
- Invent and build AI-powered workflows to scale engineering output.
- Document and automate processes, services, and tooling across internal-facing and external-facing projects.
- Identify and eradicate operational toil by taking improvements from proof-of-concept to fully shipped solutions.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD and test automation, including architecting pipelines and working with frameworks such as pytest.
- Background in, or familiarity with, device BIOS, firmware, or low-level embedded software concepts.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure services and data, including web services, REST APIs, and relational databases (SQL, PostgreSQL).
- Strong Python programming skills and proficiency in Linux shell environments.
Skills: infrastructure, DevOps, SRE engineering, CI/CD pipelines, GPU firmware
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: infrastructure, DevOps, SRE engineering, CI/CD pipelines, GPU firmware
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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