Remote Principal Engineer, Data Retrieval & Scaling

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Principal Engineer - Data Retrieval to architect and scale data acquisition for foundation models. You will own the data pipeline, crawl frontier system, and ingestion platform, guiding multiple teams toward pretraining-scale data readiness.

The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across distributed systems, data quality, and governance. It offers remote work options within the US and multiple states.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with web crawling, discovery, indexing, and ingestion infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on engineering and system design skills.
• Ability to translate requirements into interfaces and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale data acquisition infrastructure for foundation models.
• Define stable interfaces for source connectors and extensible pipelines.
• Lead architecture reviews and critical implementation work across teams.
• Mentor engineers and help build the data acquisition team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Web crawling

Data pipelines

Education

CS/CE degree or equivalent

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Principal Engineer - Data Retrieval to architect and scale data acquisition for foundation models. You will own the data pipeline, crawl frontier system, and ingestion platform, guiding multiple teams toward pretraining-scale data readiness.

The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across distributed systems, data quality, and governance. It offers remote work options within the US and multiple states.