Senior AI Agent Compute Engineer — Cloud VM Platform

NVIDIA; North Carolina; On-site; USD 168,000 - 270,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of our agent compute delivery platform, centered on a custom agent sandbox cloud VM solution. You will elevate NVIDIA's agent sandbox services to run scalable, secure, full agentic use cases and partner with teams across the company to enable AI workflows.

This role demands experience in backend or distributed systems, cloud engineering, and secure software practices, with a strong emphasis on reliability,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering, with a focus on backend or distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts, including service communication, asynchronous processing, failure handling, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, including data modeling, migrations, and performance.
• Understanding of secure software development, cloud security, identity and access management, secrets management, and network security.
• Experience with AI-native development and coding agents to multiply developer efficiency.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Leading cloud VM platform initiatives from architecture and systems design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Designing, building, and operating scalable services that support secure, isolated agent workloads.
• Developing automation for infrastructure provisioning, VM lifecycle management, application delivery, configuration, monitoring, and remediation.
• Collaborating with engineering teams across NVIDIA to translate business and AI workflow requirements into dependable platform capabilities.
• Improving the platform’s reliability, scalability, observability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Continuously raising standards for code quality, testing, documentation, infrastructure security, and production readiness.

Skills

Distributed systems concepts

Backend engineering

Cloud security

AI-native development

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Temporal

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of our agent compute delivery platform, centered on a custom agent sandbox cloud VM solution. You will elevate NVIDIA's agent sandbox services to run scalable, secure, full agentic use cases and partner with teams across the company to enable AI workflows.

This role demands experience in backend or distributed systems, cloud engineering, and secure software practices, with a strong emphasis on reliability,