Senior AI-Powered Production Tools Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build tools, pipelines, and AI-enabled systems for complex creative production workflows. You will connect AI models with DCC applications, APIs, internal services, and production infrastructure to support artists, technical artists, designers, and engineers.

A central part of the role is building reliable, multi-step agentic workflows that coordinate tools, maintain state, and recover from failures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience developing production tools, content pipelines, or comparable workflow systems.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience, including leading engineering projects, guiding architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and coordinating delivery.
• Strong Python skills and experience with software architecture, API design, automated testing, debugging, and maintainable code.
• Background with integrating with DCC applications and supporting content workflows from authoring through validation, publishing, and downstream delivery.
• Experience building multi-step AI workflows that invoke tools or APIs and interact with existing software systems, including state management, evaluation, and failure handling.
• Experience developing usable tools for artists or other specialist users and translating workflow needs into engineering requirements.
• Experience with version control, code review, release management, and support for production-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Own tools and pipeline systems from workflow discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, maintenance, and production support.
• Build agentic workflows that coordinate models, tools, APIs, and services, with context management, state tracking, validation, retries, and failure recovery.
• Develop AI-enabled engineering tools for coding, testing, debugging, codebase analysis, code review, and workflow automation.
• Create DCC integrations, plugins, panels, desktop applications, and services that address the needs of artists and technical artists.
• Build and maintain content pipelines covering authoring, validation, publishing, versioning, asset management, and delivery to rendering or real-time systems.
• Design software architecture, APIs, and data contracts that support maintainability, performance, and integration across production systems.
• Establish automated testing, agent evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and appropriate access controls to ensure reliable and observable operation.
• Manage packaging, dependencies, compatibility, and releases across supported applications and production environments.
• Partner with users to prioritize improvements, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and document systems to support adoption and ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Python

Leadership

DCC

AI workflows

API design

Testing

Code reviews

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Perforce

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build tools, pipelines, and AI-enabled systems for complex creative production workflows. You will connect AI models with DCC applications, APIs, internal services, and production infrastructure to support artists, technical artists, designers, and engineers.

A central part of the role is building reliable, multi-step agentic workflows that coordinate tools, maintain state, and recover from failures.