Senior AI Infrastructure Software Engineer - DGX Cloud

NVIDIA; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior DGX Cloud AI Infrastructure software engineer in Seattle to design, build, and maintain platforms enabling large-scale AI training, inference, and deployment. You will own tooling, resilience, and API integration across the DGX Cloud stack, working with a team that emphasizes learning, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.

You will apply Golang, Python, and C/C++ expertise, leverage Kubernetes and observability tools, and drive reliability metrics while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software infrastructure experience for large AI systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent.
• Strong debugging from application to hardware level.
• Proven track record in scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with AI training/inference and data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop platform and tools for large-scale AI, LLM, and GenAI infrastructure.
• Optimize tools to improve AI/ML workload efficiency and resiliency.
• Root cause analysis from app to hardware level.
• Enhance infrastructure underpinning NVIDIA's AI platforms.
• Co-design APIs for integration with resiliency stacks.
• Define reliability metrics to track system/service reliability.
• Collaborate across teams with strong communication.

Skills

Golang

Python

C/C++

Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

NCCL

ELK

Prometheus

Loki

Job description

Joining NVIDIA's DGX Cloud Lepton Team means contributing to the leading cloud product that powers innovative AI research and developers. We focus on building the AI/ML platform for improving productivity, optimizing efficiency and resiliency of AI workloads, as well as developing scalable AI infrastructure services globally. We are seeking an AI infrastructure software engineer to join our team. You'll be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining AI platforms that enable large-scale AI training, inferencing, fine-tuning, and Agentic AI in production.

As a senior DGX Cloud AI Infrastructure software engineer at NVIDIA, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative technologies that power the future of AI and be part of a dynamic and supportive team that values learning and growth. The role provides the autonomy to work on meaningful projects with the support and mentorship needed to succeed, and contributes to a culture of blameless postmortems, iterative improvement, and risk-taking.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop platform and tools for large-scale AI, LLM, and GenAI infrastructure.
• Develop and optimize tools to improve AI/ML workload efficiency and resiliency.
• Root cause and analyze and triage failures from the application level to the hardware level
• Enhance infrastructure and products underpinning NVIDIA's AI platforms.
• Co-design and implement APIs for integration with NVIDIA's resiliency stacks on the platform.
• Define meaningful and actionable reliability metrics to track and improve system and service reliability.
• Skilled in problem-solving, root cause analysis, and optimization.

What We Need To See

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in developing software infrastructure for large scale AI systems.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong debugging skills and experience in analyzing and triaging AI applications from the application level to the hardware level.
• Proven track record in building and scaling large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with AI training and inferencing and data infrastructure services.
• Familiar in Kubernetes and operating large-scale observability platforms for monitoring and logging (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Loki).
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Python, C/C++, script languages
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness are essential.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience in working with the large scale AI cluster and cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong understanding of NVIDIA GPUs, network technologies (RDMA, IB, NCCL)
• Good understanding on DL frameworks internal PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Dynamo, and Ray
• Experience and root cause analysis of failures and datacenter scale
• Strong background in software design and development.

NVIDIA leads the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions, from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for exceptional people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 24, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.