Principal Rust Systems Engineer — AI Platform Bringup Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for LPX System Software to shape the hardware abstraction layers and core libraries that enable a deterministic compute architecture. This role blends OS-level engineering with high-availability runtimes, designed to scale workloads across data centers.

You will lead architecture decisions, design drivers and runtimes, and drive platform bring-up for new boards.

Qualifications

• MS in CS, CE, EE, or related STEM, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years building production system software.
• Deep systems-programming expertise, with Rust as your language of choice for low-level work.
• We ship production Rust at the hardware or kernel boundary and know where it helps.
• Fluency in large, multi-repository codebases with layered dependencies.
• Demonstrated leadership driving triage of difficult reliability issues to clear root-cause analyses.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture of the hardware abstraction layers and core system libraries, and own the API contracts for the components you lead.
• Design and implement drivers, runtimes, and data movement and aggregation pipelines that execute workloads on novel silicon.
• Build runtime interfaces for launching, monitoring, and managing workloads at production scale.
• Drive triage of the most difficult sequencing, initialization, and cross-component runtime failures, and produce root-cause analyses.
• Lead new platform bring-up and NPI for new boards and silicon, in tight partnership with hardware engineering, compiler teams, and data center operations.
• Multiply the team — establish the agent-assisted engineering practices, reusable abstractions, diagnostics, and documentation that let everyone move faster without destabilizing the platform.
• Communicate architecture and design tradeoffs clearly, in writing and in diagrams, to audiences ranging from individual engineers to executive staff.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Driver/firmware experience

Kernel/OS concepts

Architecture design

Leadership

AI-assisted engineering

Education

MS in CS, CE, EE, or related STEM

Tools

gRPC

RPC frameworks

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for LPX System Software to shape the hardware abstraction layers and core libraries that enable a deterministic compute architecture. This role blends OS-level engineering with high-availability runtimes, designed to scale workloads across data centers.

You will lead architecture decisions, design drivers and runtimes, and drive platform bring-up for new boards.